Accessibility

The LSC is committed to making the information and resources that it provides via the web accessible to all users. We aim to be standards compliant and follow general principles of usability and universal design, which should help all visitors to this website.

This website is intended to meet at least level 2 ('AA') of the W3C's Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidelines, and as far as possible to meet level 3 ('AAA').

For more information about the WAI Guidelines see: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. 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.
• 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.
• 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.

We are committed to continual improvement of our web accessibility. If you have any difficulty accessing this site and require further help, or if you have any suggestions to help improve our accessibility, please use our Contact us page.