The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is fully committed to ensuring that its website is accessible and inclusive for all user groups, including people with disabilities.
The design and build of the website has taken into account the following guidelines:
* The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
* The Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Part III)
The Disability Discrimination Act states unambiguously that private and public sector web sites must be accessible. Guidelines include:
* Allowing users to control text sizes
* Using an easy to read font type
* Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast
* Using clear and simple grammar
* Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures
* Providing simple and consistent site navigation
* Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined
* Providing a full sitemap
* Providing navigational short cuts for users of text only browsers and page readers
* Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support
* Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support
Standards compliance
1. The pages on our website conform at a minimum to level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The majority of pages meet level AA and AAA requirements.
2. The pages within the website should validate as XHTML 1.1 strict and use structured semantic markup. The CSS also validates.
3. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup, eg, H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.
Colours
We have checked the site's font and background colour combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that all information is still clear.
PDF documents
A number of downloadable PDF documents are available to download from the web site. In order to view these files, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.
Font sizes
You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser.
Style sheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
If you would like to comment on the accessibility of our site please contact us.
Browsers
This website has been optimised to run at a screen size of 100% in Firefox version 3 and above and Internet Explorer version 7 and above. Users of alternative browsers, versions or settings may experience a reduced performance when using the site.
Pop-ups
Some areas of our website require the use of pop-up windows. In order to view a pop-up window you may need to change some settings for your computer.
Internet Explorer
To disable
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Pop-up Blocker, and then click Pop-up Blocker Settings.
3. Choose the Turn Off Pop-up Blocker option.
You can also activate and deactivate pop-up control by holding the CTRL key while clicking on a link.
Firefox
To disable
1. Click the Tools option in the menu.
2. Open the Options window in Firefox.
3. Click on the Content tab.
4. Uncheck the Block pop-up Windows option.
5. Click Apply and OK to close the options window.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome automatically blocks pop-ups from showing up automatically. You can choose whether you want to see pop-up notifications. Choosing to see these notifications allows the user to open the desired pop-up and still leaves all other pop-ups blocked.
To disable
1. Click the wrench icon (far right).
2. Select Options.
3. Click the ‘Under the bonnet’ tab.
4. Click Content Settings.
5. If you want to see pop-ups, select the ‘Allow all sites to show pop-ups’ checkbox.
6. Click Close.
For advanced instructions please visit the website for your software provider.