Using the Site
The website has five main areas:
The header contains branding for the website, a keyword search facility and a breadcrumb trail. The breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid that shows you where you are on the website and allows you to quickly access upper levels of the site.
The left hand column contains the Intrinsic Technology global navigation.
The middle column is the information area.
The right side column contains links, which will change dependant upon the information in the middle column.
The footer, at the bottom of the page, contains fixed links to website terms and conditions and sitemap.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes, which explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS 1) for visual layout. This site uses relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Controlling text and colours in your web browser
You can specify the font sizes and foreground and background colour of web pages displayed on your computer screen. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours.
If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet, the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser.
- Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
- From the options which appear, select 'Internet Options...'
- Click on the 'General tab'.
- Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
- To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'
- To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'
- Click OK (and again if necessary).
- Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options, which appear, select 'Text Size'.
- Select your desired text size.