Overview
This website has been designed and built with accessibility in mind, and the following advice should help with any problems you might have with navigating and accessing its content. If you are still experiencing difficulties, please contact us and we will assist you further.
Navigating this site
If you want to go to another area of the site, click with your mouse when your cursor is over a link. Whenever your cursor looks like a hand rather than an arrow, it means you can click and go to another page. You can go to any of the main sections by clicking on the buttons in the left navigation bar. These appear on every page.
Some pages, including this one, contain a lot of information. At the end of every article there is a "Back to top of page" link which will return you to the top of the page, so you can choose another topic or navigate to other sections of this site.
Images on this site
All non-layout images that convey some sort of information (for example titles or logos) have alt tags describing the image content. This information will be displayed if you are browsing this site with images turned off.
Resizing the text
Most browsers have provision for increasing and decreasing web page text sizes. Here are some examples:
Internet Explorer
PC users: Go to the View option at the top of the browser window, select Text Size and then the Largest, Larger, Medium, Smaller or Smallest option to suit.
Mac users: Go to the View option at the top of the screen, select Text Zoom and then the Larger or Smaller option. The same effect can be achieved by holding down the 'Apple' key and pressing + to increase the text size, or - to decrease it.
Firefox
PC users: Go to the View option at the top of the browser window, select Text Size and then the Increase or Decrease option. The same effect can be achieved by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing + to increase the text size, or - to decrease it.
Mac users: Go to the View option at the top of the screen, select Text Size and then the Increase or Decrease option. The same effect can be achieved by holding down the 'Apple' key and pressing + to increase the text size, or - to decrease it.
Safari
Mac users: Go to the View option at the top of the screen, and select the Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller option. The same effect can be achieved by holding down the 'Apple' key and pressing + to increase the text size, or - to decrease it.
Accesskeys
Accesskeys are keyboard shortcuts for navigating around websites. To use accesskeys, press the following keyboard combinations:
PC users: hold down Alt and press relevant accesskey - see below. Then press Enter.
Mac users: hold down Ctrl and press relevant accesskey - see below.
You can use accesskey shortcuts to get to the following main pages:
1 = Home
2 = News & Events
3 = Contact Us
4 = Donations
5 = Executive, Staff & Volunteers
6 = Volunteering
7 = Services
8 = BME Database
9 = Meetings
0 = Membership
q = Newsletters
w = Links
e = Community Development
r = Documents
t = Accessibility Statement (this page)