NHS Tower Hamlets believes very strongly that the information on our website should be easy to access by everyone.
Meeting standards
We are committed to complying with the Disability Discrimination Act and have made significant improvements to our new site in order to reduce the barriers experienced by people with disabilities.
Our website has been designed and built to meet the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) web content accessibility 'AA' guidelines.
In the future we aim to offer more online services and we will be designing these to be level 3 (triple A) compliant, although if we purchase "off-the-shelf" software this will be at least level 2 compliant.
We are aware, however, that occasionally we do make mistakes. If you find any of our pages inaccessible please use the website feedback form to let us know.
Please include details of the technology you are using and we will make every reasonable effort to either remove the barrier or provide the information in a format that you find acceptable.
Alternative text
We use alternative (alt) text labels on all the graphics on the website. These appear as you hover over the graphic with a mouse and provide a description of the graphic which can be read in screen readers.
Links
All text links within our site have been written so that they make sense when read out of context (eg by screen readers) and have 'alt' text labels.
Change the text size
Visitors can easily increase the size of text on the website by clicking on the ‘Increase text size’ link at the top of any page (AAA).
Site visitors can also change the size of the text on screen by using the settings in their browser as follows:
- using Internet Explorer, select View > Text Size and select the preferred size
- using Netscape, select View > Text Zoom and select the preferred percentage size
- using Mozilla Firefox, select View > Text size and select increase or decrease.
Text only version
A text only version of our site is available by clicking on the 'Text only' link at the top of any page. Clicking on 'Text only' removes all the graphics from the site. This facility is of particular value for visitors who want to magnify the text up to a very large size (there are no overlapping elements), or who want to apply their own stylesheet.
Colours and contrast
The colours used on the site have been carefully selected to provide appropriate contrast between text and background. They have also been checked to ensure they work for those with different colour blindness types.
In addition, we also offer versions of the site using different colour contrasts.
Downloading documents
Where possible we try to provide downloadable documents in different formats including PDF.
If you have difficulties obtaining information from a PDF you can use Adobe's web-based conversion service to produce an HTML version. However, please be aware that the standard of HTML produced is not very good.
If any downloadable document presents a barrier to accessing information, please use our website feedback form to let us know. Please include details of the document in question, the problems encountered and what we can do to help.
