Distinction has made every effort to ensure this site is accessible to all. We have aimed to make this site adhere to the following guidelines:
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- CSS 2.0
- WAI AAA
Easy browsing
As a way of assisting you around the site, this site has been set up so that you can navigate using just the keyboard.
Pressing the ' Tab ' key while on a web page will select the next link on the page. You can press ' Tab ' repeatedly to get to the chosen link. The selected link is indicated by the dotted border around the link.
Once your chosen link is selected, you can trigger it by pressing the ' Enter ' key on your keyboard. You can move backwards through links by pressing ' Shift ' + ' Tab ' together.
Filling in forms with the keyboard
In forms there are specific keys for selecting radio buttons and checkboxes.
Radio buttons
When you ' Tab ' into a form section with a choice of radio buttons you can change your choice using the ' up ' and ' down ' arrows or ' right ' and ' left ' arrows to move to the next section after making your selection hit the ' Tab ' key.
Note: if you hit the ' Enter ' key by mistake the form is often ' submitted ' before you want to because the ' Enter ' key is set to trigger the form ' submit ' button.
Checkboxes
You navigate between checkboxes using the ' Tab ' key, to selected a checkbox' you press the ' Spacebar ' and then press ' Tab ' to move onto the next 'checkbox'. To cancel or deselect a 'checkbox' press the ' Spacebar' again and the 'tick' or 'cross' will be removed.
Fortunately there is a work around to this problem; after tabbing into a combo box press ' Alt ' + ' down arrow ' together which brings up the list of links then use the ' up ' and ' down ' arrow to make your choice then press ' Enter ' to trigger the selection.
Browsers
This website has been tested on most of today's leading browsers, including:
- Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8
- Firefox 2 and 3
- Safari 4 and 5
- Opera10 and 11
- Lynx Text based browser
Plugins
We also use PDF's in places as a standard downloadable document. If you require the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can get a copy from the Adobe Website.
RSS News Feed
To access our RSS news feed you will need to have a RSS news feed reader installed on your machine. If you do not have one you can download one from the following sites: