Tyne and Wear Research and Information (TWRI) is committed to producing accessible and usable on-line services. This site has been designed to be accessible and usable by the widest audience possible. TWRI in conjunction with Newcastle City Council engaged the services of Serco Usability to help assist with the layout and functionality of this site.The pages of this site comply with most priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints of WCAG 1.0.
This site should function in most contemporary standards compliant browsers regardless of platform. Additional functionality has been included to allow you to change the text size of the font used .
How to change your Browser Settings
The ability to change the way your internet browser displays this site is better controlled within the browser itself . The BBC have created a very useful tutorial which explains how to change your settings to suit your preferences within the software you use.
We have produced three text sizes for the site which can be selected from every page. The following options allow you to alter the size of the screen font used.