Accessibility Features

This website has been designed to ensure that its content is accessible to the widest possible audience. The accessibility features available include:

Skip Navigation Links and Keyboard Navigation

This website has been designed to be accessible to screenreaders and other serial browsers. Links, forms and text are accessible using the keyboard as well as the mouse. You can use the Tab and Enter keys to move through the pages.

A 'Skip to Main Content' link has been provided as the first link in each page to enable you to skip over the navigation links and access the page main content.

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Access Keys

Access keys have been provided to help bring focus to important page elements using the keyboard. This may assist those with motor skill difficulties and prove a convenience to all. The following keys are used:

Special access keys are also provided on the Library Catalogue search pages as follows:

For Windows: Press 'alt + the access key number' to bring focus to the link, then press 'enter' to access the linked destination.

For Macintosh: Press 'control + the access key number' to bring focus to the link, then press 'enter' to access the linked destination.

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Text Size

This website has been designed to allow your browser to determine the size of the text. You can change your text size if you prefer as follows:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer: go to View menu and select Text Size
  • Mozilla Firefox: go to View menu and select Text Size
  • Opera: go to View menu and select Zoom
  • Safari: go to View menu and select Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller

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Hyperlinks

Some of the links in this website will take you to pages outside this website. In most cases these links will open in your current browser window. If you would rather open the link in a new browser window, right click on the desired link and select 'Open in New Window'.

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This page was last updated on 16-October-2007