Accessibility
1st Port Asset Management is committed to making the information on this website available to as many people as possible. Many internet users find websites difficult to use due to the way they have been designed and written. We recognise that this is an important issue and seek to ensure that this website is accessible. For more information on web accessibility, please visit the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

If you come across any problems when using this website page, please contact us via the details on the right.

Standards Compliance

  • All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and cannot be tested automatically. All the guidelines have been reviewed and it is believed that all pages on this site are compliant.
  • All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
  • We have designed all our pages so that they can be read by screen readers. You can find out more information about screen readers by going to Wikipedia's screen reader page.

Site Map

In addition to using the main navigation you can use the Site Map to navigate around this website.

Changing your browser settings

To alter the way you view websites, from text size to background colour, change the settings on your browser by following the instructions below.

Internet Explorer 6 (and higher)

To change the text size

  • Open tools in the main toolbar and click "Internet Options"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility" (under Appearance)
  • Select "Ignore font sizes specified on web pages" and mark a tick in the box
  • Click "OK"
  • Click on "View" in the main tool bar", click "Text size" and then choose the desired size

To change text and background colours

  • Open tools in the main toolbar and click "Internet Options"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility"
  • Select the "Ignore colours specified on web pages" and make a tick in the box
  • Click "OK"
  • On the General tab, click "Colours"
  • Deselect "Use Windows colours" tick box
  • Click the box next to "Text" and select a colour
  • Click "OK"
  • Click the box next to "Background" and select a colour
  • Click "OK"

To change the colour of links

  • On the browser Tools menu click "Internet Options"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility"
  • Select the "Ignore colours specified on web pages" tick box
  • Click "OK"
  • Click on "Colours", then click on the relevant colour box and choose the colour you want for "Visited" and "Unvisited" links
  • Click "OK"

To change the font

  • On the browser Tools menu click "Internet Options"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility"
  • Select the "Ignore font styles specified on web pages" tick box
  • Click "OK"
  • Click on "Fonts", then select the required font
  • Click "OK"

To change line length by changing the size and shape of browser window

  • Select view from the main toolbar and scroll down to full screen or press F11. You can also restore down the size of the screen and drag to change the size

Prevent images/graphics appearing

  • On the browser Tools menu click "Internet Options"
  • On the Advanced tab, scroll down to "Multimedia" and deselect the following tick boxes: "Play animations in web pages", "Play videos in web pages" (not an option on all versions) and "Show Pictures"
  • Click "Apply" then "OK"

Importing your own stylesheet

  • On the browser Tools menu click "Internet Options"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility"
  • Select the tick boxes that your stylesheet will override: colours, font styles, and font sizes
  • Click "OK"
  • On the General tab, click "Accessibility"
  • Select the "Format documents using my style sheet" tick box and browse to the required stylesheet and click "OK"

More options available to help you view websites

  • On the browser Tools menu click "Internet Options"
  • On the Advanced tab choose the options you want

Mozilla Firefox 2 (and higher)

To change the font and text size

  • On the Tools menu click "Options"
  • Select "Content" and choose required font and text size

To use these fonts for all future websites visit:

  • Select "Advanced"
  • Deselect "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

To change text, background and link colours

  • On the Tools menu click "Options"
  • Select "Content" and choose "Colours"
  • Click the "Text" box and select a colour
  • Click "OK"
  • Click the "Background" box and select a colour
  • Click "OK"
  • Click the "Unvisited links" box and select a colour
  • Click "OK"
  • Click the "Visited links" box and select a colour
  • Click "OK" to close the Preferences window

To use these colours in future select:

  • Deselect "Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above"

Prevent images/graphics appearing

  • On the Tools menu click "Options"
  • Select "Content"
  • Deselect "Load images automatically"

To change line length by changing the size and shape of browser window

  • Click the "Full Screen" button on the browser window, or on the browser "View" menu click "Full Screen", or drag the window to the required size.

If you have problems changing your browser setting use the "Help" menu on the browser toolbar.