Accessibility Policy
Visual impairments come in all forms, ranging from colour blindness, partial blindness to complete vision loss. We have done our best on this site to cater for as many types of visual impairment as possible.
If you are blind or partially sighted and use a speech browser, we have endeavoured to make this site as friendly as possible and have used 'web standards' to code the site. However, we are always open to improvements so if you spot any problems or have any suggestions please contact us, and we will try our upmost to improve things.
Changing text size
This site allows the resizing of text using your web browser. The method you use to resize the default text size varies between browsers. Look at the screenshots below which illustrate how to change text size on the two main browsers; Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Internet Explorer
To resize text in internet explorer go to view > text size and select the text size you require.
Firefox
In Firefox you can select to increase or decrease text size by pressing CTRL + or CTRL - respectively. Alternatively these options can also be found under view > text size.
Access Keys
Many people also suffer from some form of motor control problem that can make using a mouse very difficult. Because of this, we have added "access keys" to this site. These act as shortcuts to key links on the page. The access keys are as follows:
- 0 - Return to the homepage
- 1 - About Us
- 2 - Contact Us
- 3 - Service User Guide
- 4 - News
- 5 - Philosophy of Care
- 6 - Patient Referral
How to use access keys
To use an access key hold down the ALT key (or control on a Mac) on your keyboard and press the appropriate number or letter listed above. On most browsers, this will immediately jump you to the appropriate page.
However, if you are using Internet Explorer you will then need to press RETURN to active the link.