Accessibility

Development Control Services aims to provide information that is accessible to all user groups. The following features aim to enhance navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

Access keys

1: Main Navigation

2: Channel Navigation

3: Information Links

4: Site Search

5: Skip to Footer

6: Accessibility Information

S: Skip to Main Content

H: Home Page

J: Search for a job

Using access keys

This website should be usable with only a keyboard

PC

• Internet Explorer 6 and above - hold down 'Alt' and press the relevant letter/number key, then press 'Enter'.
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above - hold down 'Shift' and 'Alt' and press the relevant letter/number key.
• Chrome 3 and above - hold down 'Alt' and press the relevant letter/number key.
• Opera - hold down shift and escape, release both keys and press the relevant letter/number key.

Mac

• Mozilla Firefox - press 'Ctrl' and the relevant letter/number key.
• Safari 3 - press 'Ctrl' and the relevant letter/number key, Safari 4 and higher 'Ctrl' + 'Option' and the relevant letter/number key.
• Chrome 3 and above - hold down 'Ctrl' and 'Option' and press the relevant letter/number key.
• Opera - hold down shift and escape, release both keys and press the relevant letter/number key.

Structured, semantic markup

This site's markup (HTML) is semantically correct, using HTML elements for their given purpose. Well structured HTML has semantic meaning for a wide range of user agents (browsers without style sheets, text browsers, PDAs, search engines etc.)

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.

Font sizes

You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser:

• Internet Explorer 6 - select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
• Internet Explorer 7 and above - select Page, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
• Firefox - ensure View, Zoom, Zoom Text Only is enabled then select View, Zoom, Zoom In.

Style sheets

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

Forms

All forms follow a logical Tab sequence.