Carole Simmons is committed to providing you a website that is accessible to the widest possible audiences, including those with sight, audio and motor impairment restrictions. Specifically:

She aims to use a web font so all text is easy to read. This includes:

• Having appropriate ALT tags for images to convey information for people with images switched off, or who use a screen reader.

• Ensuring that navigation through my website works in a consistent way.

• Not relying on just colour as the only way of giving information.

• Avoiding the use of images of text to replace actual text, and provide appropriate ALT tags if images do contain words that are important to the understanding of the website.

• Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all of the presentation and layout.

The content has been written and formatted to make it as accessible as possible. For example:

• Headings highlight sections of text.

• Sentences are short with the meaning at the beginning.

• Trying to to ensure that link text makes sense out of context and that it accurately describes the page to which it points.

• Forms can be navigated using the tab key.

Further help

The following links are to further browser and operating system specific information and advice about accessibility.

Resource page from AbilityNet entitled Help making your device easier to use.

Advice for Microsoft users

Advice for Apple users

PDF files

Some of the information on our website may be in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website. Later versions of this software provide a number of features that improve access for users.