Accessibility

We have endeavoured to make this site usable and accessible. We would like all visitors to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily. If you find a problem in using this site, please tell us. When using this site, you will find a number of features that will help you to find the information you are looking for:

If this information is difficult to access, read or understand, it can be provided in another format, for example in Braille, in large print on audiotape, in another language or by someone talking it through with you.

Finding your place in the site

The main menu appears across the top of the page with, in most cases, a sub-menu down the left. Your location within the site can be identified by the highlighting of the selected area.

Returning to the home page

When you want to return to the home page, you can click on the College logo (at the top of the navigation on every page).

Increasing the size of the text

Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using. Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several browsers follows:

• Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and above provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size. You change font size by holding the "Alt" key then pressing "V" followed by "X" to then select the size you want from the list If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by press and hold the "CTRL" key, then move the wheel up and down to change the size of the text.
• Opera Version 6.0 and above. You increase or decrease the displayed font size by holding the "Alt" key then pressing "V" followed by "Z" to then select the size you want from the list. If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by press and hold the "CTRL" key, then move the wheel up and down to change the size of the text.
• Netscape Navigator Version 4.7x and above allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys. To increase the displayed font size, hold down the "Ctrl" key and press the "]" key.To decrease the displayed font size, hold down the "Ctrl" key and press the "[" key. Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Netscape.

Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.

Skipping the navigation

If you are using an audio browser and don't wish to have the navigation read out to you on any page, we have included a 'skip navigation' link as one of the first entries on the text-version of the pages. If you select this link you will be taken straight to the page heading, and then the page content.

Accessibility & usability standards

Making a site accessible to everyone who wants to use it is important, and we have tried to ensure that our site is completely accessible to all.

This site uses HTML 4.01 Transitional and conforms with level Triple-A of the WCAG The pages has been tested against the standards for HTML 4.01 Transitional given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org].

All pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.

The most common browsers who are known to cause trouble are:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
• Netscape Navigator 4.x
• Opera 3.5
• Any older versions of the above

This site has been tested against the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Safari as they become available.