Standards compliance

• The pages on our selling website conform at a minimum to level Acompliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines andendorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).
  
• All pages validate as XHTML 1 Transitional and use structured semantic markup. The CSS also validates.
• We strive to obey the spirit of the Disability DiscriminationAct (DDA) of 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, asrequired by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). http://www.disability.gov.uk/dda/
  http://www.drc-gb.org/

Structured, semantic markup: Headings and navigation menus

• HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles and so on.
  
• Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensuresthat the number of links in the list is read out at the start and itcan be skipped easily.

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive altattributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.

Colours
We have checked the site's font and background colour combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that allinformation is still clear.

Style sheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

Scripting
Java script is used on the website to improve usability and is required for online shopping. However it is possible to browse the website without Java script.

Links
Linking text has been written to make sense out of context.

Where appropriate, links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, for example to advise you if the link will open in a new window.