the hub is committed to complying with the Disability Discrimination Act and have made significant improvements to our new website in order to reduce the barriers experienced by people with disabilities. We aim to create pages that comply with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to the "A" standard, and greater.

However, we may occasionally make mistakes. If you find that you are experiencing a problem in using any of our pages, please contact The Hub and to let us know.

We will make every reasonable effort to either remove the barrier or provide the information in a format that you find acceptable. 


Help for users with disabilities

Changing the text size

A facility to change the size of text on each page is provided.
[-] to make the text smaller, [+] to make the text larger. 

As an alternative on the "text only" page you can enlarge or reduce the writing further by changing your browser's settings as follows:

• Internet Explorer - Go to View > Text size.

• Netscape - Press the "Ctrl" and "]" keys at the same time to increase the font size, and the "Ctrl" and "[" keys at the same time to decrease the font size.

• Firefox - Press the "Ctrl" and "+" keys at the same time to increase the font size, and the "Ctrl" and "-" keys at the same time to decrease the font size. Alternatively, go to View > Text size.

• Opera - Go to View > Zoom.

• Safari - Go to View >Make text bigger

Keyboard navigation using "Access Keys"

To aid accessibility, the Hub web site is equipped with keyboard navigation which allows a user to jump to a particular page by use of the keyboard only. Most browsers allow this by typing certain keys, called access keys.

Using Windows, hold down Alt and press the access key, then press Enter
Using Macintosh, hold down Control and press the access key.

UK Government Access Key Standards for the following keys apply:

1  <Home page
9  <Contact Us
0  <Access Key details