Accessibility

DRS recognises the importance of making its web services available to a wide audience. The DRS website complies with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, details of which can be found on the Directgov website. The DRS website also complies with level Double-A of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v1.0, details of which can be found on the W3C website.

Accessible features of the website include:

1. Scalable fonts to enlarge text throughout the website. For instructions on increasing either the text size or the zoom level, please refer to your browser's Help files.

Default Controls are:

IE 6 - In the file menu navigate to the 'View' drop down and hover over the 'Text Size' option then select one of the 5 text size options.

IE 7 or newer & Firefox - Press and hold Ctrl and press + or - to increase or decrease the text size / zoom level. (The mouse wheel can also be used) Ctrl and 0 usually returns the text size / zoom level to default.

Opera - In the file menu navigate to the 'View' drop down and hover over the 'Zoom' option then select one of the zoom levels.

2. Support for a wide variety of modern devices and assistive technologies, including systems which do not use pointing devices (such as a mouse).

3. Equivalent content regardless of your browser's capabilities. The DRS website may take advantage of modern technologies available within your browser, but it will never rely upon them to present content.

PDF files downloaded from the website may require the installation of a free document reader from Adobe, called Adobe Acrobat reader. If required, please download Acrobat Reader here. If you have any problems accessing the website in any way, please contact us.