A note on accessibility...
This site has been designed using web standards. This means that the content on the site is viewable by all browsers, on all kinds of internet device, by all sorts of people.
Web standards are set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (the people who 'invented' the Web) to make sure that all the information on the internet is accessible to everyone.
If you are using a browser that is not standards-compliant (like Netscape 4, for example) then this site will appear with a relatively plain layout. All the text is readable as normal, however. This is the whole point of web standards: it means that even if you have a browser that is old and simple, you can still see the information the site is offering. More modern browsers will see the site as it is meant to be seen, with colours, columns, bells, whistles etc.
Without web standards, older browsers sometimes display pages wrongly, meaning that the site is inaccessible. This means that not only do things look a bit less than beautiful, but the text and information can't actually be got at. With web standards, things sometimes look odd, but the information itself is always accessible.
This is particularly important for people who use the Web with special kinds of browser. Those using braille or speech readers - which don't show the layout of the site, only the text - can rely on being able to accurately represent a site designed with web standards. Other sites can be very hit and miss, and this is bad news.
If the appearance of this site doesn't quite cut the mustard, it might be your browser. You could consider getting a more up-to-date, standards compliant one: for the Apple Mac, try Safari. For Windows, try something like Firefox. These browsers are free. If this isn't possible, then sorry: but at least the site works just as well in text-only mode.
Lots of effort has gone into making this site universal, but if you have any problems, suggestions or comments, please email.
