Accessibility

The Meningitis Trust is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

This website endeavours to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.

This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant HTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.

Whilst www.meningitis-trust.org strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website.

We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing the www.meningitis-trust.org website, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Which browsers should I use to access your site?

Our website is built around the latest technology standards, to also be as accessible as possible for the visually impaired.

This however also means that the site cannot be accessed with certain older internet browsers. For instance, the website will not work with Netscape 4.7 or earlier versions of Netscape. In order to use all the features of the Meningitis Trust website, you should have installed one of the following browsers.

Windows

• Internet Explorer 6.0+
• Firefox 2.0
• Opera 9.0+

Mac

• Safari 2.2+
• Firefox 2.0+Opera 9.0+

In case you are using an older internet browser, we strongly recommend to update it with the latest edition of one of the following browsers.

• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari

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Accessibility help

Viewing text in larger size

In order to view text in larger than the default size please follow the instructions below.

These are for the browser versions listed, but they may also work with other versions of the same browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0

1.Open the browser
2.Choose View option
3.Select Text Size from options list
4.From next options list select Small, Medium, Large or Largest to set text to size you want

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, 2.0

1.Open the browser
2.Hold down Ctrl button on keyboard and press + (plus) key
3.This will enlarge text, to enlarge again repeat procedure
4.Repeat until text is set to size you want
5.To make text smaller press Ctrl on keyboard and - (minus) key

Google Chrome 0.4

1.Open the browser
2.To make text larger press Ctrl++
3.To make text smaller press Ctrl --
4.To return text to normal size press Ctrl + 0

Opera 9.0

1.Open the browser
2.Press + (in some versions you might need to press the Shift key as well) to increase size and - to decrease text size. Each press will increase or decrease the size by 10%.
3.Alternatively press Alt + V to bring up the view menu and then press Z to bring up the zoom options. Then use the up and down arrow keys to select the option you want followed by Enter.

Netscape 6.2, 7.0, 8.1 and 9.0

1.Open the browser

2.Hold down Ctrl button on keyboard and press + (plus) key
3.This will enlarge text, to enlarge again repeat procedure
4.Repeat until text is set to size you want
5.To make text smaller press Ctrl on keyboard and - (minus) key

Apple Safari 1.2, 2.0 and 3.0

1.Open the browser
2.Hold down Apple Key and press + (plus) key
3.This will enlarge text, to enlarge again repeat procedure
4.Repeat until text is set to size you want
5.To make text smaller press Apple Key on keyboard and press -  (minus) key