Accessibility

We have tried to make this website as accessible as possible and there are a number of ways to help you get the best from our site, these are outlined below.

Text size

If you find the text size on this website is too small or too large to read comfortably, you can change the size of it via your browser. You can also specify the font styles, colours, and foreground and background colours. The way you do this varies from browser to browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.

Firefox
If you are using Firefox, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.

Firefox also allows the text size to be changed with keyboard shortcuts:

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size

Apple Mac
For a computer using a Macintosh operating system:

Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and - to decrease the size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size

Linux
For a computer using a Linux operating system:

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size

PDF Files

We may at times present information in PDF format. You will need a program such as Adobe Reader to view this content. Adobe Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

W3C Compliance

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people who create and maintain websites. These guidelines help organisations provide websites that are accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are split into 3 priority levels:

  • Priority 1
  • Priority 2
  • Priority 3

All pages on this site comply with Priority 1 and the majority of pages comply with Priority 1 and 2.

We are committed to maintaining and improving the accessibility of this site and our long term aim is to provide a site that complies with all WCAG priority levels.

Further Information

The BBC Accessibility page provides information specific to your operating system to help you change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible to you.

Please contact the Practice Administrator if you have any suggestions on how to improve this website.

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