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We believe that websites should be as widely accessible as is reasonably possible. For this reason, we have built our site to meet the first level of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) accessibility guidelines, known as level A.
You can use your own fonts, colours or style sheet when viewing our site by setting your browser preferences.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows versions 5.0 and above, choose Internet Options from the Tools menu, then choose Accessibility from the General tab in the resulting window.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer for the Mac versions 5.0 and newer, choose Preferences from either the Edit or the Explorer menu depending on which Mac system you are using. Then select Web Browser from the side tabs and Web Content from underneath that.
In Netscape Navigator versions 6.0 or above, choose Preferences from the Edit menu (from the Netscape menu in Mac system X) then Appearance from the side menu and then either Fonts or Colours.
If you find that the text on our site appears either too large or too small, you can adjust it through your web browser controls.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.0 and above, from the View menu choose either Text Size or Text Zoom, depending on whether you are using the Windows or Mac version.
In Netscape Navigator versions 6.0 or newer, choose Text Zoom from the View menu.
Our site is built to work with all popular web browsers, but users of older versions may find problems with certain pages. We maximum compatibility, we recommend you use one of the following browsers:
Many publications are available for you to download from our site for future viewing and printing. Almost all of the documents are saved as either PDF or Word files and you will need appropriate software to open them.
We are working towards publishing an additional HTML version of every download, available for you to view in your web browser without having to open up an alternative application.
To view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files, you need the free Adobe Reader software (formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader). If you don't have Adobe Reader already, you can download it from www.adobe.com. Follow the link titled 'Get Adobe Reader'.
All our PDF files should work with version 4.0 of Adobe Acrobat Reader and newer.
Adobe also provide advice for visually impaired users at access.adobe.com.
You can view and print Microsoft Word files from Microsoft Word itself or several other word processing packages. Microsoft offer the free Microsoft Word Viewer as a download for Windows users that don't have a suitable word processor. The viewer is available from the Office section of www.microsoft.com.
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There is a search box on every page of the site with which you can search the text of all our pages.
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