Accessibility Policy

29/05/2008

It is important to make web sites accessible to all users. Therefore this site has been designed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 . These guidelines are intended to make web content accessible to people with disabilities.

The Ulster Unionist website has been developed to comply to a minimum of level A conformance of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, but also satisfies many other checkpoints laid out in the Guidelines for levels AA and AAA.

We provide a text only version of all pages on the website, and aim to provide suitable alternative content for items such as images and video content.

You can change the size of text on this site by using your web browser settings. For example, in Internet Explorer you can set this by going to the menu 'View' » 'Text Size' or using the Zoom level at the bottom left of the status bar in Internet Explorer 7. In Mozilla Firefox this can be found under 'View' » 'Text Size'.

  • NI sharing in Harland and Wolff's good news

    Ulster Unionist spokesperson for Enterprise Trade and Investment, Leslie Cree MLA, has said that a multi-million pound contract for Harland & Wolff is ';just the good news that Northern Ireland needs';.

  • Dairy farmer's profit margins will face pressure

    Ulster Unionist Agricultural spokesman, Tom Elliott MLA has warned dairy farmers that their profit margins will come under increasing pressure from both falling milk prices and increasing costs over the coming months.

  • GCSE transfer descends into bureaucratic nightmare

    Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy has condemned the ';bureaucratic nightmare'; that will see pupils across Northern Ireland, who are hoping to transfer to schools where they can sit their A-levels, left in limbo on the eve of a new academic year.

  • Important progress on Enniskillen hospital

    Ulster Unionist Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey, visited the site of the new acute hospital in Enniskillen today to witness an exciting phase in its development.

  • New North Belfast Councillor

    The Ulster Unionist party has welcomed an old face back into its Belfast council team, as Fred Rodgers has decided to return to politics to take over from Fred Cobain who was a member of Belfast City Council for 25 years.

  • How do we deal with our past?

    A delegation from the Ulster Unionist Party has met with the Commission for Victims and survivors today as part of an ongoing set of meetings on issues pertaining to the past.

  • Reduction in plastic bag use good news for the environment

    Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has welcomed the news that the number of single-use plastic bags has been significantly reduced this year according to the department of the environment.

  • Claudy report devastating - Hussey

    Alderman Mary Hamilton has been fully supported by Cllr Derek Hussey, UUP Spokesperson on Victims' Issues, in regard to the ongoing concerns within the Claudy community. Cllr Hussey emphasised that it is ';high time that all involved in our past came forward with the real truth. If we are all to move on the truth must prevail';.

  • Department of Education has been repeatedly wasteful

    Ulster Unionist Education spokesperson Basil McCrea MLA has challenged the Minister for Education to outline how she intends to overcome the mounting problems facing the education system.

  • Providing safe and efficient school transport

    The Ulster Unionist Party has extended its thanks to representatives from SELB in relation to the ongoing problems over school transport in Armagh.