MDP Accessibility Statement

This is the Accessibility statement for the MDP website.


Accessibility

The Ministry of Defence Police is committed to making its website www.mod.police.uk easily accessible to all sections of the public, in line with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c. 50).

The site aspires to the following web standards:

  • W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 Conformance Level Double A
  • Valid W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • Valid W3C CSS 2.0

Accessibility is defined as the ability of people with disabilities to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with websites.

The www.mod.police.uk website mostly conforms to W3C WAI's WCAG 1.0 , Conformance Level Double A .

We are working to ensure that all existing content produced and new, updated, and existing content provided conforms to WCAG 1.0 Conformance Level Double A by end December 2009, in line with Cabinet Office recommendations for government websites.

All users should be able to:-

  • Find out how to contact the Ministry of Defence Police via telephone, email or letter
  • Navigate the site easily to find the information they require
  • Access ‘Accessibility’ information
  • Access images, video and sound content through text equivalents
  • Complete and submit forms

We can only be certain that the core site design meets all access needs where we have had feedback from a wide range of users.

We would therefore be especially interested to hear from site users who have special access needs about their experience of using the site.
Please email us using the Contact us form in the Related Pages.

Software to open documents

This website provides links to documents in portable document format (PDF). You may need special software to read these files. The link "Tips on using PDFs" on the right will enable you to download free software to allow you to open these files.

www.mod.police.uk is speech enabled using Browsealoud, a free plugin which reads web pages aloud.

Browsealoud currently supports the following browsers:

IE4 upwards

All MSN versions

All Compuserve versions

All AOL versions

Mozilla

Firefox

Netscape 4 upwards

To begin using Browsealoud to read content from www.mod.police.uk download the free plugin.

Users of Apple's Safari browser should use the built in Text to Speech function.