Accessibility Statement

This website is run by the Central Office of Information, the government's executive agency for publicity procurement.

This page states our intention that our website is usable and accessible to all users and details some of the measures taken. This website's objective are to conform to the Guidelines for UK government websites, which support the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA, to ensure a Web accessibility standard have been achieved and are maintained.

This accessibility statement applies only to the Central Office of Information usability guidelines website at usability.coi.gov.uk. This policy does not apply to any other site, including:

Other websites operated by or for COI
Other government departments and agencies
Any site that is linked from one of our pages

Access keys

We have not included accesskeys in the coding of this website as they frequently cause conflicts with other software and are rarely used

Alternative text

All images on this site are accompanied by alternative text which where appropriate identifies an image or its function. This alternative text (alt-text) is generally only visible when the browser's automatic image loading feature is turned off.

Links

All text links are written so that they make sense when read out of context.

PDFs

The PDFs on this site are all made to be accessible.

For more information about PDF accessibility see the Adobe website accessibility section.

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