Accessibility statement

We have made every effort to make the iansyst site accessible and easy to use for everyone, no matter what browser you choose to use, and whether or not you have any disabilities. We are constantly trying to improve the accessibility of all of our sites and to meet the Web Access Initiative (WAI) Priorities 1 and 2 accessibility standards. we offer these accessibility features on our site:

• a skip to content link to help screen reader and keybaord users access content quickly
• a comprehensive sitemap
• a search facility
• alternative stylesheets to change the colour contrasts of the site
• resizable text

Our main aim is to create a website that is both accessible and usuable to the end user. we try and work to the principles and best practices of the WCAG guidelines. Although we recognise that technology has moved on since their creation. The site has been built to comply with (X)HTML and CSS2.

At the top of every page is a hidden link that will appear when ‘tabbed to’ using a keyboard and is spoken by screen-reading software. it is the first link and when selected, will make reading skip past the rest of the menu items and commence at the beginning of the main page content

Browsealoud is a free tool that speech enables website content. It offers a practical website access service to people with reading difficulties and those who find it easier to listen to, rather than read the content of our website. you can download the free text to speech software from the BrowseAloud site