Important announcement

During May 2012, the majority of PRIMIS products and services will become available to members of the PRIMIS Hub membership scheme only. If you are not yet a member, please register now to ensure that you have continued access to your current PRIMIS services.

Legal terms and guidelines

Accessibility statement

The PRIMIS website is fully compliant with the Web Accessibility Initiative's WCAG Priority 2 "AA" level accessibility.

The PRIMIS website is designed to have maximum accessibility for all:

The website is accessible on most browsers and operating systems
The website uses relative text-sizing, so the size of text on screen can be changed as desired
Navigation is possible using just a keyboard
The website can be used with text-based browsers and screen readers
The website uses XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) layout instead of images (where possible)
The website provides alternative text for images, so users can still access information when images are turned off
The site provides full explanations for any acronyms and abbreviations
The site works with JavaScript and CSS turned off, meaning all sections of the website can be accessed without relying on a specific browser, operating system or computer

Viewing documents

Many documents on this website are in Adobe PDF format (.pdf). To view PDF documents, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer or Adobe Online Conversion Tools (these are available free of charge). These tools will assist you in viewing PDF documents.

To download Adobe tools, click here.

Other documents available for viewing on this site are Microsoft Word documents (.doc). To view these documents, you will need Microsoft Word installed on your computer or Microsoft Word Viewer, which allows you to view and print out Microsoft Word documents.

To download Microsoft Word Viewer, click here.

Viewing presentations

All presentations on this website are in Microsoft PowerPoint Slideshow format (.pps). To view presentations, you will need Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer or the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, which allows you to view and print out Microsoft PowerPoint documents.
All presentations will open in a new window.

To download Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, click here.

Web Links

All web links going to a different site will open in a new window.

World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards

The PRIMIS website is fully validated to CSS level 2.1 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) validator. This is a recommendation of W3C, making the website fully interoperable with different browsers and operation systems

The PRIMIS website has also been successfully verified as XHTML 1.0 Transitional by the W3C validator. This is a recommendation of W3C, making the website fully interoperable with different browsers and operation systems.