Accessibility Statement

GCIL is committed to producing websites and web resources that can be accessed by all users. 
This page describes some of the features that have been incorporated into this site.

We are working hard to ensure that almost all our publicly available pages produced on our website will conform to at least World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) to Level 2 standard and validate against the Bobby website accessibility software.

Current Standards Compliance

We believe that all pages on this site are Bobby approved, complying with all priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. 

The majority of stylesheets used to control layout and presentation of the pages on this site validate to the W3C CSS standard.

Text Size

Our website has been designed to easily allow users to change the text size using the text control at the top right hand corner of the page.

However, if you need to change the size of the text on the page, most Internet browsers will allow users to change the font size.  However when changing your browser settings, keep this information in mind:

Bigger text means less information on the screen at any one time and more scrolling.
You may need to click on the 'Refresh' or 'Reload' button for changes to take effect.

How to change the settings of the following browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 6 and 7 

1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'View' menu.
2. Select 'Text Size'.
3. There are five choices, ranging from the smallest to the largest.
4. Choose a font size from the options listed.
5. Click on the new font style.
6. Some experimentation is necessary.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4

1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'View' menu.
2. Select 'Internet Options'.
3. Click on the 'Font' button that is near the bottom.
4. Use the pull-down 'Font Size' menu to select a new size.  There are five choices, ranging from smallest to largest.
5. Use the pull-down 'Proportional Font' menu to select a new font style.
6. When you've made your selection, click on the 'OK' button.
7. Some experimentation is necessary.

Netscape Navigator 6

1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'Edit' menu.
2. Select 'Preferences'.
3. Click on 'Appearances then select 'Fonts'.
4. Choose a font size from the options listed.
5. Click on the desired font size from the pull-down menu.
6. Click 'OK'.

Links

Links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

Images

All content images should include descriptive ALT attributes.  Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

Public areas of this site use only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets the content of each page is still readable.

Documents

Many of the documents in this site are PDFs and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view, which is available as a free Download.