Site map
This site map below shows an outline of this web site. A search function is also available on each page to help you to find what you need on this site.
Information describing the efforts made to make this web site accessible to people with disabilities follows the site map.
The Site Map
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Accessibility Features
All the pages on this web site are constructed as valid XHTML 1.1 documents using valid CSS 2.1, to ensure that:
- All documents validate to formal published grammars;
- Style sheets, not markup, are used to control layout and presentation;
- Markup, rather than images, is used to convey information;
- Deprecated features of W3C technologies are not used; and
- Documents may be read without style sheets.
As part of an ongoing project, all pages on this web site are being brought into compliance with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to help ensure that the content of the web site is accessible to people with disabilities. All the pages on this web site that display the Level Triple-A conformance icon have been tested using Watchfire WebXACT and comply with all the automatic checkpoints used by that software, and have been reviewed for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The following list shows some of the ways in which this web site tries to comply with the WCAG:
- Text equivalents have been provided for every non-text element that conveys information;
- All information conveyed with colour is also available without colour, either from context or markup;
- The language of each document is identified, and any changes in language are identified;
- The language used is as clear and simple as possible;
- Foreground and background colour combinations have been chosen to provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen;
- Markup rather than images has been used to convey information wherever possible;
- Header elements have been used consistently and in order to convey document structure;
- Pages do not "auto-refresh" or "auto-redirect", and no "pop-up" or other windows are caused to appear;
- Link text has been made as descriptive as possible when read out of context, and link titles have been used where appropriate;
- "Meta-data" has been included with each page to add semantic information;
- This site map has been included to provide information about the general layout of the site and to provide information on the accessibility features;
- Navigation mechanisms have been used in a consistent manner, with a navigator bar appearing at the bottom of each page;
- Tables have not been used for layout;
- Frames are not used on this site;
- Labels of all form controls are properly positioned and are explicitly associated with their controls;
- Event handlers for scripts have been made input device-independent where possible;
- The expansion of each abbreviation or acronym is expanded in each document at the place where it first occurs;
- A logical tab order has been provided through form controls;
- On almost all pages, if your user agent supports HTML access keys, then you can quickly get back to the home page by pressing H and to the contents page for that section (if one exists) by pressing C. Other keyboard shortcuts have been employed where appropriate;
- Adjacent links are separated by non-link printable characters;
- Related links have been grouped and a way has been provided to bypass the group when appropriate;
- Information has been provided about document collections;
- A consistent style of presentation has been used;
- Summaries and titles are provided for tables; and
- Abbreviations have been provided for table header labels where appropriate.
Please email me if you have any difficulty using this web site.
Other Information
A print media style sheet has also been provided, which means that when you print documents from this web site, amongst other things:
- Navigation bars, search and advertisement units, and conformance icons do not print;
- Coloured text and coloured backgrounds are not used;
- Hyperlinks, acronyms, abbreviations and definitions are not underlined; and
- Text should not overrun the edge of the printed page.