Accessibility Information

This page describes accessibility information for the Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health web site.

Please note that our site is changing. The following information currently applies only to the Press Office and ICH Human Resources sections. We are working hard to bring the rest of our site up to the same level of accessibility as these sections. Until we do, please accept our apologies if you have difficulties accessing any of part of our site.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

Access Keys

Most web browsers support accessing links through keyboard shortcuts. On a Macintosh browser these are usually accessed by pressing Control and an access key; on Microsoft Windows and Unix systems, these may be accessed by pressing Alt and an access key.

Access key 1

Home page

Access key 2

Skip to main content

Access key S

Search box

Access key 0

Accessibility Information

Standards compliance

1. All our pages are WCAG A compliant, meeting all priority one guidelines; we also meet most of the priority two and three guidelines.
2. Our pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict
3. We regularly test our site against the TechDis Seven Precepts of Usability and Accessibility, as well as using automated testing tools such as Bobby.

Navigation aids

1. All pages include a 'breadcrumb trail' at the top of the page (labelled 'you are here'), showing exactly where you are in the site's heirarchical navigation.
2. There is a search box displayed near the top of every page (access key S)
3. Users of non-visual browsers can skip repeated navigation links with the 'skip to main content' link present on every page (access key 2)

Links

1. Links are written to make sense out of context
2. Many links have a title attribute which describes the link in greater detail

Images and multimedia

1. All images used on this site are described with an ALT attribute.

Visual design

1. Cascading style sheets are used for visual layout.
2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in most browsers
3. The content of all pages is accessible using browsers which do not support style sheets at all, or when support for style sheets has been disabled.

Some web browsers (particularly older browsers) do not correctly display cascading style sheets, and the layout may appear corrupted. If you find this is the case, you will be able to access all content by disabling style sheet support in your browser.

Credits

This statement is adapted from information on http://diveintoaccessibility.org.