Accessibility Statement

It is important to us that our website is accessible and inclusive for all our visitors users.

Web accessibility focuses on ensuring all users, regardless of their physical and mental capability, are able to access the content and services on a particular website.

Our website design and build has taken into account the following guidelines:

• The WC3 Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org
• The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, part three) www.direct.gov.uk

These guidelines include:

• Allowing users to control text sizes.
• Using an easy to read font type.
• Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast.
• Using clear and simple grammar.
• Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures.
• Providing simple and consistent site navigation.
• Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined.
• Providing a full sitemap
• Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support.
• Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support.

JavaScript

JavaScript is used sparingly and unobtrusively: the key content and functionality of the website is available to users without JavaScript.

Known browser support

This website operates on a wide range of browsers.

PC operating systems:

• Internet Explorer 6,
• Internet Explorer 5.5
• Internet Explorer 5
• Mozilla Firefox 1
• Netscape Navigator 7.0
• Opera 7.5
• Lynx

Mac operating systems:

• Safari 1.0.1
• Internet Explorer 5.2
• Mozilla Firebird 0.7

Feedback

FORWARD welcomes your feedback and suggestions for improvement to our website.