Accessibility

Unistats is committed to providing an accessible web presence that gives all members of the public full access to its information and services, which are offered through this website.

This website content has been developed to conform with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999), Priority levels 1 and 2 (also known as 'A' and 'AA') as a minimum requirement. This quality standard aims to ensure that this website is accessible to users with a range of disabilities, including those with visual impairments.

The following features have been included in the content to conform to these standards:

  • All pages have properly nested link lists in the navigation;
  • A breadcrumb trail is provided on every page of the build to identify where it is within the site structure;
  • All content images used include descriptive ALT attributes;
  • This site uses relative font sizes, to enable user-specified "text size" to be set in the user's browser (see below);
  • All javascript-driven functionality is fully available if javascript is disabled;
  • This website build has been optimised to be viewed using the following browser technologies:
    • Internet Explorer version 6 and above;
    • Firefox version: latest version;
    • Safari: latest version;
    • Opera: latest version;
    The website content can be viewed using other browser technologies, but the visual presentation of this content is limited, especially if the technology does not support cascading style sheets.

This website has been designed to be viewed at 800x600 pixels and upwards.

Changing the text size

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher:

  • Select View from the browser's toolbar.
  • Select Text size from the menu.
  • Choose a size from the Largest to Smallest.

If you are using Mozilla Firefox:

  • Select View from the browser's toolbar.
  • Locate Text size, there you will have the option to increase or decrease text size.
  • To increase the size of text, select Increase.
  • To decrease the size of text, select Decrease.
  • To revert back to the default size of text, select Normal.

If you are using Safari:

  • Select View from the browser's toolbar.
  • Select Make Text Bigger to increase the text size or Make Text Smaller to reduce the text size.

If you are using Opera:

  • Select View from the browser's toolbar.
  • Select Zoom and select a percentage to change the text size.