Accessibility
We’re committed to giving everyone the best experience on our site.
Learn more about how our accessibility tools support people of all abilities and disabilities, including older audiences, and those with visual, hearing, cognitive or motor impairments.
How do our accessibility tools work?
To help you make changes to the look and feel of the site and structure, you’ll find our accessibility tool icon on every page. This tool features a range of functions that will help you navigate the site in a way that is specific to your needs.
Below you’ll find how-to videos and summaries of how to use each tool to ensure you have the best experience on our site.
What else are we doing to make our wealth of advice accessible?
Across the site, you’ll also find a wide range of downloadable guides that are also accessible to ensure we cater for all abilities and disabilities.
There are four colour contrast settings for those with colour blindness or to cater to those who may find it hard to differentiate between colour contrasts.
- Invert colours
- Dark contrast
- Light contrast
- Desaturate
To reset, simply click reset.
There are three settings to increase space between text:
- Light spacing
- Moderate spacing
- Heavy spacing
To increase the spacing between the words on the page, click text spacing.
There are three options: light, moderate and heavy and it will increase the text spacing on the page.
To reset all, just click reset all.
Allows users to change the font on the page to a standard font, for ease of reading.
To reset, simply click reset all.
Links are underlined to highlight hyperlinked text.
To reset, simply click reset all.
This tool will display a list of what’s on the page to make it easier to jump straight to a specific section.
Simply click page structure and you will see every element of the navigation on here which you can click to go straight to that section of the page.
To reset, simply click reset all.
Enable or disable animations such as GIFs or videos.
And in order to stop animations, you simply click stop animations and it will stop any video or other animations on the page from playing.
To reset, simply click reset all.
There are four options to increase the text size to support those with visual impairments.
There are four options which will increase the size of the text on the page.
To reset, simply click reset all.
Two options to enlarge your cursor along with a reading guide.
To make the cursor bigger, simply click cursor.
And there are two options, in addition to making the cursor bigger, you can also have a reading guide to help you read the text on the page.
To reset, click reset all.
This site meets level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1)