This website has been designed to be as useable and accessible as possible across a wide variety of user-agents. This has been done by using XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and it conforms to current Web accessibilty Initiative (W3C WaI) guidelines.
For non-standard users, the website can be navigated by using pre-defined access keys (see below and right). For users with visual impairments, if using the latest browser versions with 'text-zoom', text-size can be increased by holding down and scrolling (at the same time) the wheel of your mouse. There area also links to common access devices such as screen readers and braille devices in the right-hand column.
You can access the key navigational features of this website without the need for a mouse by using access keys. access keys are simply keys on your keyboard which, when pressed, will identify with a pre-defined element on a web page and cause the element (such as a link or button) to become active.
Windows: Hold down the 'alt' key and the access key, followed by the 'Enter' key
Macintosh: Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and the access key.
The pages on this website comply with the recommended UK Government access key standards.
Once you have reached your desired page, you can navigate around the active elements of that page (such as links or buttons) by using the 'tab' key and then pressing 'Enter'.
All pages contain a link to the home page (access key 1), contact page (access key 8) and search term entry field (access key 9).
Skip navigation (access key S) is available to users of screen readers and speech browsers, to bypass repeated page elements - such as the top and side navigation links - and jump directly to the page content.
All content images on this site are provided with descriptive 'ALT' or 'TITLE' attributes. Where images contain important information, such as graphs and charts, alternative information is provided in the form of inline descriptions ('LONGDESC') of tabular data.
[S] Skip navigation[L] Login to the site[0] Access key details (here)[1] Home page[2] Membership page[3] Policy page[4] Training page[5] Premises page[6] Local network page[7] About the IoD page[8] Contact us page[9] Search entry field