Using Assistive Technology

Assistive technologies are products that can be used by people with disabilities to help them accomplish tasks that they cannot, or could not, easily accomplish otherwise. Assistive technologies are also referred to as adaptive software.

Some assistive technologies rely on the output of other user agents, such as graphical desktop browsers, text browsers, voice browsers, multimedia players and plug-ins. Assistive technology comes in many different forms, and some of these include:

• Alternative keyboards or switches
• Braille and refreshable Braille
• Screen magnifiers
• Sound notification
• Screen readers
• Speech recognition
• Scanning software
• Speech synthesis (speech output)
• Tabbing through structural elements
• Text browsers
• Voice browsers

As part of our accessibility statement, we will test our pages against as many types of assistive technologies as we can to make the pages more accessible to you. If you do find that you are unable to access any information using any assistive technology, then please contact us.

If we cannot make the information accessible to you using your assistive technology, then we will try to find an alternative way for you to access or be provided with the information.