Accessibility
Every effort has been made to develop and maintain this website to adhere to the WAI Priority 2 guidelines.
If, for any reason, you are unable to access any material on this website, please contact the webmaster to discuss alternative delivery methods.
Colours and Viewing Options
You can change the colours and font of the site to make it easier to read. Just choose your preferred colour/font scheme from the drop-down menu below: Viewing Preferences:You must have cookies enabled on your browser as this action puts a cookie on your computer. A cookie is a text file which is created and stored on your computer which, in this case, holds your colour preferences. It does not gather any personal information.
You do not have to have javascript enabled on your computer to use the colour/font switcher. If you access the website from a different computer you will have to reset your colour/font preferences.
There are some bugs in the Opera browser where all formatting can be lost. If this happens, you can choose the different colours and 'reset' the formatting of the page by selecting View > Style, where the extra colour/font schemes are listed at the bottom of the menu.
It is possible that if you have been using a colour/font theme and then you change it that Opera will keep showing the old theme on pages you have already visited. If this happens, it may help if you refresh your screen using your browser's refresh button.
If you do not wish to accept the cookie, you may change the colours/font of the page you are on by using one of the alternate stylesheets (if your browser has this facility). These alternate stylesheets render the page you are viewing in any of the colour/font schemes available to those using the cookie. However, if you change the colours/font this way the changes will only be applied to the page you are on, and formatting will be lost when you go to another page. Try the View > Styles menu for a list of the alternate stylesheets, or see your browser's help file for details.
These facilities will not work on older browsers. If the facility does not work on your browser and you need to see the site in a different colour/font, please email the web administrator.
These colour/font schemes can be used in conjunction with the font re-sizing method (below).
Text Size
If the text is too small for you to read comfortably on your screen you can override the default font size for this website by changing the settings within your browser.
In Netscape Navigator 4 in Windows choose 'view' from the top toolbar and then 'Increase font' (this can be repeated to get larger text each time).
In Internet Explorer in Windows choose 'view' from the top toolbar and then 'text size' then choose your preferred setting.
On Explorer 4, click 'Internet Options' on the View or Tools menu, then on the General Tab click 'Fonts'. Select your preferred text size.
In Opera in Windows choose 'view' from the top toolbar and then 'zoom' then choose your preferred setting.
For other browsers or operating systems please consult the help file in your browser.
Navigation
The main sections of this site; News, Listen, Works, Reviews, Contact, and Site Help can be reached using the top menu bar.If you are using a screen-reader, or viewing the page with style sheets disabled, the navigation menu will appear at the beginning of the page. The first link of the menu gives you the option of going straight to the main contents of the page avoiding the main navigation.
Access Keys
The following keyboard shortcuts (access keys) have been set up on this site:
- 's' - content of page you are on (skipping navigation)
- '0' - access key details
As far as possible these follow the recommended UK Government access key standard. These access keys enable you to navigate to certain pages using keyboard shortcuts excluding the need for a mouse. To use them in windows press the 'Alt key' and the access key possibly followed by the 'enter' key. To use with a Macintosh system press the 'Ctrl key' and the access key.
Multimedia
All music is in MP3 format, all video is in Quicktime format. Please refer to the Accessibility Help page if you encounter problems. Click on links to open in your computer's default media player or right click and "save target as" to save to your hard disk and then open (CTRL Click for Mac)
It is possible that sometimes portable document format files (PDFs) or .doc files might appear on this site. In order to view these files you will need a program on your computer that reads these formats. If you do not have the readers installed you can get Adobe Reader which reads PDFs from Adobe's download page. Or, if you are unable to do this, you can use Adobe's online conversion tool which can be found on Adobe's Access Online Tools page. If you need to view a .doc file, but do not have the correct software, Microsoft Word Viewer can be downloaded from the Microsoft download page.
These downloads and services are free.
General
This site has been tested in Netscape Navigator 4.5 and 8, Internet Explorer 5 and 6, Opera 5 and above, Firefox 1.0.2 Mozilla 1 on Windows and in IE on Mac (OS X). If you have any problems viewing the pages or if you would like to make any comments concerning any aspects of the site, please e-mail the web designer at webmaster@audiophobic.com.
This site may appear very plain in some browsers. This is because these pages have been created to be web standards compliant. However, some browsers are not compliant and interpret the styles badly obscuring some information. Therefore, the stylesheets have been hidden from older non standards-compliant browsers. The information shown on these 'plain' pages is exactly the same as on those pages which look 'prettier'. For more information on web standards please see The Web Standards Project.
The links are checked on a regular basis, but if you should find any links that don't work, please e-mail me at the above address.
This site was created using Notepad and Evrsoft First Page 2000. The logos were created in Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.
If you print out any part of this website, only the centre column of text will appear on the printed page - no images will print (with the exception of the maps in the transport section). If you are using Netscape Navigator all of the text and images will be printed out.
The Cascading Style Sheet and XHTML used have been validated by W3C.
This site's mark-up has been validated:
