Accessibility Statement

This website has been designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. We understand that the current web standards do not address every accessibility problem and if you find you have difficulty using our site please let us know and we will do our best to rectify this in any future maintenance and development.

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that help users who have difficulty using pointing devices such as a mouse.

In most browsers you will be able jump to specific areas of the site by using the access keys. If you are using Windows, press ALT + an access key; for Macintosh users, press Control + an access key. This website uses the UK government access keys standards. Below is a description of the access keys that are used on this site:

Access Key actions

• s - Skip to navigation
• 1 - Home page
• 3 - Site map
• 0 - Accessibility statement
• a - About the awards
• h - The awards process
• m - People's award
• e - Ceremony 2007
• w - Previous winners
• n - Online nomination
• g - From the frontline
• l - Links
• i - Inside Justice Week 2008
• v - Direct Gov
• r - Privacy
• c - Contact us
• p - Crown Copyright
• d - Disclaimer

All pages on this site are WCAG approved, and comply with all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

The pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+0.