Accessibility

The pages on this site are designed to comply with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

NOW People are committed to making its web site as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, including users who may be blind or partially sighted.

The design of our website includes a number of accessibility features including:

* A common design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled users, and allowing text sizes to be changed to suit the users needs.

* Ensuring that all images used in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts"), as required by internationally recognised Web accessibility guidelines.

Whilst the website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, the pages have been optimised to be best viewed with your screen resolution set to 800x600 pixels and using browsers versions 4 or above (Internet Explorer & Netscape Navigator). To get the best from the colour images contained on these pages we recommend you view with a colour depth greater than 256 colours.

In general, we try to avoid the use of other proprietary publishing formats such as Shockwave Flash and other media formats requiring third-party plug-ins., we use other technologies, such as JavaScript, appropriately to avoid creating accessibility barriers. We focus on the use of "open" publishing standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium.

We are working to improve the accessibility features of www.nowpeople.co.uk, and welcome your suggestions and comments.

If you encounter any accessibility or technical problems when using this site, please e-mail the Web Manager: webmaster@nowpeople.co.uk.