Accessibility

LNWH Charity is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology, ability or disability. Our aim is that our website meets level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for disabled people. This accessibility statement applies only to our main website www.meadowhousehospice.org.uk and not other websites that are linked from our pages.

PC browsers

Internet Explorer 4 - press 'alt' and access key at same time
Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7 - press 'alt' and access key at same time, then press enter key
Mozilla Firefox - press 'shift', 'alt' and access key at same time
Netscape 6 - press 'alt' and access key at same time
Chrome - press 'alt' and access key at same time

Mac browsers

Internet Explorer 5, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 6 - press 'ctrl' and access key at same time.

HTML, skip links and screen readers

A hidden menu is placed at the start of each page to allow screen reader users to link to the main sections on the page. HTML tags are used for headings. Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists.

Images

All images include a brief alternative text to describe the image or its function. This is usually only visible when the browser's automatic image loading feature is turned off.

Font size and colour

Users can change the font size by using their browser settings:

Internet Explorer - Select View > Text size, then select your preferred size
Mozilla Firefox - Select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts and Colours, then select your preferred size
Netscape - Select View > Text zoom, then select your preferred size
Opera - Select Tools > Preferences > Web pages > Normal font, then select your preferred size
Safari - Select Safari > Preferences > Appearance, then select your preferred font and size
Chrome - Select Tools > Zoom, then select your preferred choices using the plus and minus keys

Layout

To conform to W3C guidelines, this site uses cascading style sheets. You can replace these with your own style sheets by changing your browser settings:

Internet Explorer - Select Tools > Internet options > Accessibility; click on checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes; click checkbox entitled 'format documents using my style sheet', then browse to your preferred style sheet and click OK
Netscape - Select Edit > Preferences > Appearance, then select your preferred choices
Mozilla Firefox - Select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours, then select your preferred choices
Opera - Select Tools > Preferences > Web pages > Normal font, then select your preferred choices
Safari - Select Safari > Preferences > Appearance > Standard font, then select your preferred choices
Chrome - Select Tools > Options > Under the hood > Change font and language settings, then select your preferred choices

Software for viewing documents

PDF files can be read using Adobe Reader software, which is available via the Adobe website.

Help us improve

Please contact us if you have any suggestions on how we can make our site even more accessible.

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