Accessibility

Introduction

This page describes some of the features that have been incorporated into the site to aid accessibility for all users.

All pages produced on the NHS 24 inform will conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

If you have any problems with the site please contact us.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Adobe Acrobat

Within the website you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files.

You can download Portable Document Format (PDF) documents using Adobe Reader – available free of charge.

If your screen reader software (for example an audio-enabled web browser) is not compatible with Adobe Reader, Adobe provide a free online tool to convert the content of PDF files to text – so they can be understood by most screen reader applications.

Problems with Text Size

This site allows you to change the size of the text in a number of ways:

In the top right of the page you will find a tool to change the font-size represented by A A A.

If you find that the text is too small for you to read, you can change it to a size you're more comfortable with:

• In Windows Internet Explorer, use the View - Text Size menu.
• In Macintosh Internet Explorer and Netscape 6 and 7, use the View - Text Zoom menu.
• In Opera, use the Zoom selector.
• In Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, use the View - Increase Text Size option.
• In Safari, use the View - Make Text Bigger option.

If you use a wheel-mouse, you may be able to change the text size by holding down the Control or Command key and turning the wheel. In some browsers you can change the text size using Control or Command and the + and - keys.

Colour Contrast

This size ensures that the use of colour is suitable for people who have some form of colour-blindness, vision impairment or have difficulty in reading text. In addition to the default styling you can also choose High Visability mode or blue mode for those who suffer from red/green colour deficiency.

These options are available from the toolbar on the top right of the page adjacent to the text resize option.

Dixerit

We have enabled the Dixerit service on this site to help anyone who prefers to listen than to read, including people with impaired vision, dyslexia, or low literacy.

You do not need to install any special software on your computer to use this service.

To listen to a page use the Listen  link at the top right of each page.