Accessible material

Accessible design is good design.
Students are a diverse population, in the way they learn and perceive information. Accessible course materials should be flexible and adaptable to a diverse population.

Addressing the needs of students with disabilities in course material delivery is likely to highlight areas of good practice in teaching and learning. Examples from around the world tend to show that course materials originally designed to be accessible to pupils with special needs then become adopted as mainstream.

It should be remembered that visitors to a web site are not there for entertainment. This is more so for students who use the web to fulfil some particular learning need.

Online or flexible delivery of subject materials can assist or detract from effective service delivery and good teaching practice. By recognising and addressing issues of accessibility, academic teaching staff can focus on developing the full potential of their subject content delivery in a sound educational manner.

This web site aims to comply with W3C standards, including XHTML 1.0 , CSS 2 , and conforms to W3C 's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505 , level Double-A.