Accessibility
Help with reading a website
Readable and resizable fonts and layout
The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust website uses font sizes that you can control using your web browser.
You can change the text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer by selecting View > Text size followed by your preferred text size from 'Smallest' to 'Largest'. The default setting is 'Medium'.
You can change the text size in Mozilla Firefox by selecting View > Text size followed by 'Increase' or 'Decrease'. To return the text size to its default setting, select 'Normal'.
The website's fonts have been chosen for their legibility on computer screens.
Using the website's text features
At the top of each page on the website are three buttons that let you change the the way website looks.
- The first button is the normal button
- the second button increases the text size and
- the third button increases the text size and sets the background to black and the text to white so it is "high visibility".
A cookie is put on your machine so that the website remembers your preference.
The website also underlines links to make them more visible when you put your mouse over, try it here to see what happens!
Help with hearing a website
Readable by screen readers
Images on our website have alternative text attributes, often known as alt text. This means that when an image is used on a web page to convey information its content is also described in the alt text. This means that the image can be understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers. If an image is used for simply decorative purposes, the text attribute for the image is left empty in line with accepted best practice.
The website uses Cascading Style Sheets which make the site easier to read by text readers. We do not use frames which can sometimes trip up screen readers.
Browsealoud
You can download a programme that reads websites that have been enabled, the software reads text when you hover over it with your mouse.
Click here to download browsealoud
