Our aim is to make sure our website is accessible to everyone. Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, as we welcome the opportunity to improve the experience for all of our visitors.
Access keys
Access keys allow you to navigate around a website without using a mouse. You may find them useful as a way of moving around the site.
Depending on which browser you are you using, you will have to use a different combination of keystrokes to trigger the access keys. Usually, you need to hold down one or two keys, and then press the access key you want.
Web browsers on PCs
- Firefox 2 and upwards: hold down the SHIFT key and the ALT key and then press the number of the access key
- Firefox 1.5: hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access key
- Opera 9 and upwards: hold SHIFT and the ESC key and the list of access keys will appear
- Google Chrome: hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access key
- Internet Explorer 5 and upwards: hold down the ALT key, press the number of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER
- Safari 3: hold down the ALT key, press the number of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER
- Netscape 6 and upwards: hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key
- Netscape earlier versions: access keys are not supported
Web browsers on Macs
- Firefox 2: hold down the SHIFT key and the ALT key and then press the number of the access key
- Firefox 1.5: hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access key
- Safari: hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access key
- Opera 9: hold SHIFT and the ESC key and the list of access keys will appear
- Internet Explorer 5+: hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access key
- Internet Explorer 4.5: access keys are not supported
Access keys on this site
The following keys have been defined:
- 1: Home page
- 2: Structure index page
- 3: Index page for the Takeover Code
- 4: Disclosure index page
- 5: Consultation index page
- 6: Statements index page
- 7: *not currently used*
- 8: Site map
- 9: Contact page
- 0: Accessibility information (this page)
Links
- Wherever possible, links have title attributes which make the destination clear
- Links are written to make sense out of context
- Where possible, link URLs are permanent
Forms
- All form controls are properly labelled
- We provide an email address as our primary means of contact, rather than a form
Scripts
- Site content is usable without JavaScript support
Documents and external links
- In visual browsers, unless CSS is disabled, a small icon appears by links to external websites or to documents such as PDFs and CSV files
- Browsers with pop-up blockers should be able to access these external documents
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes that can be re-sized by the user
- The content of each page can still be read without CSS support