The Housing Corporation is committed to making the information on this site available to the widest possible audience.

The site is designed to work properly with assistive technologies like screen readers, and also to allow you to customize its appearance without making it harder to use.

Access keys

Access keys are used to provide an alternative means of navigation to pointing and clicking with a mouse. This site uses the following UK Government standard access keys:

S - Skip navigation
1 - Home page
3 - Site map
4 - Search
5 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
6 - Help
7 - Contact us
8 - Terms and conditions
0 - Accessibility details

Text size

To change the size of text on this site, you can use the "Text size: smaller" or "larger" links on the right of each page. You can also change settings in your web browser. Go to the “View” menu and then select “Text Size” or “Text Zoom” to see the options available in your browser.

You can also set these options permanently in most browsers, usually in the same way as you set preferences for colours – see below for detailed instructions.

Colours

You can change the colour of the background and the text of the site. This can be particularly useful if you are using magnification technology and the white background produces an uncomfortable glare.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the “Tools” menu and select “Internet Options”. Click the “Colours” button to set your preferred colours.

In Mozilla Firefox, go to the “Tools” menu and select “Options”. In the “General” section, select “Fonts & colours”.

In Netscape Navigator, go to the “Edit” menu and select “Preferences”. In the “Appearance” section, select “Fonts/Colours”.

Accessibility standards

Pages on this site use valid XHTML and CSS.

Pages on this site meet Priority 1 accessibility checkpoints as specified by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (this is also known as “A” or “Single-A” compliance). Any new websites funded with money from our Innovation and Good Practice programme are required to meet the "AA" standard.

Non-HTML files downloadable from this site – for example, Microsoft Office documents or Adobe PDF files – may present accessibility problems. If you have a problem accessing these or any other information on the site, please contact us and we will try to provide the information in an appropriate format.