Accessibility

We are committed to making this website available to as many people as possible. Many internet users can find websites difficult to use due to the way they have been designed. We recognise that this is an important issue and have made and are continuing to making changes to ensure that the CLA website is accessible in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines.

Changes to improve accessibility are ongoing, but if you come across a page you find difficult to use please let me know.

Access Keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use a mouse for navigation.

For this website you can use:

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Accessibility Design

Many internet users with disabilities find website difficult or even impossible to use simply because of the way they are designed. This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers. As such, visitors can control the size of the text and can use 'access keys' on the keyboard rather than the mouse to navigate through pages.

Internal Navigation Links

At the start of every page are invisible links providing direct access to content, navigation and the accessibility statement, each with access keys. When keyboard-navigating, however, the links become visible - try tabbing through the links on the page.

Browser Tests

We have tested the pages of the site with the following browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and 6.0 for PCs and 5.2 for Macintosh computers
Mozilla FireFox 1.0 for PCs and Macintosh computers

Standards Compliance

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use structured semantic markup.

The CSS also validates.

We strive to obey the spirit of the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission.

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The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned

(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,

(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or

(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).

Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.

Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.

Solicitors Indemnity Fund . Solicitors in the CLA Legal Team are not covered by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund in relation to professional negligence in relation to any advice given by them.

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