Accessibility

Accessibility

We are committed to making www.papworthhospitalcharity.org.uk accessible to everyone. We are currently reviewing all aspects of our website and are actively working to ensure that the existing site and our future online activities meet appropriate guidelines and standards on web accessibility issues.

Standards compliance

All web pages produced are written to the ‘XHTML 1. 1 Transitional standard, use Cascading Style Sheets for presentation and aim to meet the "AA" conformance level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This means that the website can be viewed in all modern browsers, regardless of platform or device. Some older browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape 4) do not comply with these web standards. A minority of our visitors still use these browsers and, as a result, will not experience the site as we have intended. They will be able to read the pages and navigate the site, but the site will look basic in comparison.

Text size

Change font size of web page text in Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers

There are several ways to change the font size of the displayed web page text in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox web browsers.

The quickest way to change font size in both Internet Explorer and Firefox- if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel

Changing font sizes in both Internet Explorer and Firefox

Using the scroll wheel on the mouse is definitely quick and easy, especially when you don't want or don't like to tinker around with browser menu options or keyboard shortcuts.

Hit the Control key and keep it pressed. Now, move the scroll wheel and see what happens - scrolling the wheel away from your hand will decrease the font size while if you scroll it towards your hand, the font size will increase.

A few points to remember. Internet Explorer will let you resize the fonts to 5 sizes - Largest, Larger, Medium (the default), Smaller and Smallest. Firefox, however, has a wider range and lets you decrease the font size till it becomes illegible or enlarges it so much that you see only one word on the screen.

Another way to change font sizes of text on web pages in Internet Explorer and Firefox is through the View menu.

Internet Explorer

Click on View from the top menu and move down to Text Size. You can now change the text to one of the five sizes - Largest, Larger, Medium, Smaller and Smallest. Internet Explorer lets you change the font size to only one of these five values.

You can also accomplish the same using keyboard shortcuts. ALT-V would bring up the View menu. Clicking on the "x" key would open the Text Size menu. You can now use the up and down arrow keys and finally click on "Enter" once you have made your selection.

Firefox

From the View menu, choose Text Size and then select whether you want to increase or decrease the font size.

The keyboard shortcuts for changing the font size of text on web pages in Firefox are much simpler than Internet Explorer. Keeping the CONTROL key pressed, click on the "+" key to increase the font size and "-" key to decrease the font size. I know I couldn't resist the temptation myself, but don't play around much with this feature else you can get a splitting headache. Since Firefox allows you to change text sizes across a wider range than Internet Explorer, I suggest you use the keyboard shortcuts on this browser.

Downloadable documents

We provide downloadable documents in PDF and also occasionally in Word and Excel formats.
If you encounter a problem with any of our downloadable documents please contact us via fundraising@papworth.nhs.org

Browser compatibility

An aspect of web accessibility is browser compatibility. The following browsers may be used to view gosh.org web pages:
On a PC   On a Mac  
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above  Firefox 1.6 and above
Firefox 0.9 and above  Safari 1.2 and above

Download Plug-ins

To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed.
 
Download Acrobat Reader from Adobe.com
 
Download Adobe Flash player from Adobe.com
 
How you can help us to improve the site

We welcome feedback from users to help us make this site as useful and helpful as possible. If you would like to make an suggestion or let us know your thoughts about this website please email fundraising@papworth.nhs.uk