Accessibility
Our website has been built with accessibility in mind, so we hope you find this page and our websites meet your needs and that you can find the information you are seeking.
Help with navigating our websites
Help with seeing our website
Each page on the website has the option to make text larger or smaller as required. Click on your preferred view in the text size box in the top right of any page.
For more information on help with seeing websites including using screen magnifying software, making your mouse pointer easier to see and using your own style sheets amongst other useful tips, go to the BBC My Web My Way website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/seeing/sub_1.shtml.
Help with navigating our websites
This section covers how you can navigate our website using your keyboard or your mouse.
Access keys
We have used access keys on our website to allow you to navigate as directly
as possible to your desired location using your keyboard. The list of access
keys we use is as follows:
H - Home page
I - Get informed
R - Get ready
C - Get in touch
T - Translation services
A - Accessibility
Windows-based systems:
To activate access keys on Windows-based systems press Alt at the same
time as the access key letter e.g. Alt + H and press enter to go to the
home page.
Macintosh-based systems
To activate access keys on Macintosh-based systems press Ctrl at the same
time as the access key letter e.g. Ctrl + H to go to the home
page.
Firefox 2
If you use Firefox 2, you will need to press shift and Alt at the same
time as the access key letter e.g. shift + Alt + H to go to
the home page.
For more information on help with navigating websites using your keyboard, go to the BBC My Web My Way website: www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/keyboard/sub_1.shtml.
Using your mouse to navigate our websites
For more information on using your mouse to navigate websites such as adjusting
the speed of your mouse, making it left-handed and making your mouse pointer
larger, go to the BBC My Web My Way website at: www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/win/keyboard/mouse_easy/sub_2.shtml.
The BBC site also covers alternatives to the mouse and keyboard.
The BBC’s My Web My Way website
If you have difficulty browsing the internet, you may be interested in the
BBC’s My Web My Way website. It is a comprehensive resource for accessibility
to the internet and covers many topics, from how to make the best use of
your computer for accessibility, whether you use a PC or Mac and whichever
operating system you use; to case studies of disabled users who use the
BBC site; and to how you can see, hear or navigate the internet better.
You will find the BBC’s My Web My Way at: www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility.
Adobe
Adobe provide various tools that may help you to access information on
websites. Adobe Reader is a software program that allows you to read and
print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Adobe also provide a PDF conversion tool that converts PDF files either to HTML 3.2 or text format. You can then use either a browser, a word processing software program such as Microsoft Word, or a screen reader to access the file's content. The PDF conversion tool can be found at: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html.
These tools are part of Adobe's website accessibility section which can be found at: www.adobe.com/accessibility/index.html.
Microsoft
Should you have any further queries about accessibility for Microsoft products
such as the Windows operating system or the Internet Explorer web browser,
go to Microsoft’s accessibility site: www.microsoft.com/enable.
If you have any feedback you would like to share with us about navigating our websites please contact us.
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