Accessibility

The Vitalise website is designed to be as accessible as possible to all our visitors.

We aim to meet the highest level of accessibility set out in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines (version 2.0). Where we do not currently meet the guidelines we are working towards them.

The information on this page is intended to help you use both the website accessibility tools and the settings on your own web browser to make visiting our site as easy and enjoyable as possible.

If you experience problems accessing any part of this website or you would like to offer us feedback and suggestions on improving accessibility then please don't hesitate to email the website team.

Change text size

Using the website to change text size

You can change the text size by using the text bigger and smaller buttons provided on each page of the website.

Using your browser to change text size

To increase or decrease the text size using your browser, use the appropriate option in your browser or apply user style sheets.

Browser options:

• Internet Explorer: Go to View > Text Size > Larger
• Mozilla Firefox: Go to View > Text Size > Increase
  Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and + keys together
  Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
• Netscape: Go to View > Text Size > Increase
  Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and + keys together
  Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
• Opera: Go to View > Zoom >%
  Windows shortcut: Press the Ctrl and either + or 0 keys together
  Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together
• Safari: Go to View > Make text bigger
  Macintosh shortcut: Press the Command and + keys together

Change the colour of the text and page background

To choose your own colour scheme you can use the appropriate option in your web browser.

• Internet Explorer: From the Tools menu, select Internet Options. Click the Colors button. Unticking the ‘Use windows colors’ box will allow you to select your preferred options
• Firefox: From the Tools menu, select Options. Click the Colours button and select your preferred options
• Safari: You can create a ‘style sheet’ you’re your preferred styles – visit the Safari website for advice
• Netscape: From the Edit menu, select Preferences. In the Appearance tab, choose Colors and set your preferences
• Opera: There are many ways to customise your settings – visit the Opera website for advice

View website in high contrast

The high contrast version of the website displays the website in high contrast yellow on a black background.

To view the website this way just click on the High contrast version link in the header provided on every page. To return to click on 'view normal contrast version' link.

If you use Mozilla Firefox or Opera as your browser, you can view the site in a Low Graphics layout by changing the page style in your browser.

• Mozilla Firefox: go to View > Page Style > No style
• Opera: go to View > Style > User Mode

PDF documents

Some documents on this website (such as brochures and magazines) are in PDF format. To view a PDF document you will need to have Adobe Reader. You can download Adobe Reader for free. All information in our PDFs is either available elsewhere on the website or supplied in alternative formats such as a rich text document. In the future, we aim to make all PDFs accessible to screenreaders.

Printing

To print out a page of the website use the Print link provided on every page. If you have selected a larger text size on screen your printed page should also have larger text.

Some browsers may automatically shrink the text to fit on one page. If you find that the text has printed in too small a font to read comfortably you might find it helpful to print with the paper lengthways (landscape). You can select this option in the printer window that appears when you choose to print a page.

My Web My Way

The BBC website My Web My Way has loads of useful information on how you can alter websites to suit your preferences.