- guardian.co.uk,
- Monday July 09 2007 17.30 BST
In order to make this site accessible to a wide audience we have worked closely with disability consultants the Shaw Trust. We have placed great emphasis on testing with people to ensure a better experience for all users and all technologies.
However we welcome any comments, suggestions or feedback you have for us, please feel free to contact us.
Current status
We are in the process of introducing a new design for guardian.co.uk, taking care to ensure improved accessibility. The new design currently applies to the front page and all the pages in our Travel, Science, Environment and Technology sections at time of writing (September 2007). Many pages on the guardian.co.uk network, however, remain in the old design, and hence will not have the same level of accessibility or the features listed below. We will update this page with progress as the new designs are rolled out across more pages across 2007-2008.
Text resizing
This can be activated through the 'Text larger / smaller' links at the top of the page. When the text size reaches 20px a new wide layout is triggered ensuring that the layout is not compromised. (Please note, our text resizing feature is dependent on javascript being turned on.)
Where our text resizing feature is not available, you can achieve the same result independently by following these instructions:
• PC/ Internet Explorer 6
From the top menu bar, select View and point to Text size
• PC/ Internet Explorer 7
From the menu bar underneath the search field, select Page and point to Text size
• PC/ other browsers
Increase text size: Hold down the CTRL key and press +
Decrease text size: Hold down the CTRL key and press -
• Mac / all browsers
Increase text size: Hold down the Command key and press +
Decrease text size: Hold down the Command key and press -
Access keys
These can be accessed in the following way:
On a PC hold down ALT, on a Mac hold down Control and then press one of the keys listed below.
'S' to jump to the content
'0' to jump to the site navigation
'4' to jump to the site search
'1' to see our accessibility statement (which you're on at the moment)
'8' to see our terms and conditions.
