This is the official Accessibility Statement for Social Interest Group website:

If you have experienced a problem accessing or reading our material, please let us know, and we will try to provide the information in a helpful format. We would also welcome your feedback and ideas regarding the accessibility of our site.

Standards Compliance

All pages on this site are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines approved and comply with all priority 1, 2 and, in most cases, 3 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Many accessibility features can be measured, while some require human judgement. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that we have achieved compliance.

Adobe Acrobat

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the PDF documents viewable on this website. You can download Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe website.

Adobe also provides valuable tools and resources in the accessibility section of the Adobe website if you wish to access PDF documents using a screen reader.

Adjusting the Text size

The text size used throughout the site is easily increased or decreased using your browser. A couple of examples of how to do this are listed below:

Changing your text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Select Text Size from the View menu.
  2. Select from the list of predefined text sizes ranging from Largest to Smallest

Changing your text size in Mozilla:

  1. Select Text Size from the View menu.
  2. Select Increase Font or Decrease Font to adjust the font size accordingly.

Alternatively, you can adjust your text size in many browsers by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key (PC) and using your mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease your text size.

Tabbing

All pages have a tab index, so pressing the tab key will sequentially go through the links on the web page from top to bottom.

Technical Specification

This website has been designed to conform to W3C web standards and uses valid eXtensible Hypertext Mark-up Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).