Accessibility

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is committed to making its online presence, gosh.org, accessible by everyone. We are currently reviewing all aspects of our website and are actively working to ensure that the existing site and our future online activities meet appropriate guidelines and standards on web accessibility issues.

Access keys

The access key function allows lets you navigate around the site by using your keyboard. You can jump directly to certain links or certain areas within a page, without having to move your mouse at all.

By holding down ALT+[access key] (PC) or CTRL+[access key] (Mac), a link will become active. You can then hit the enter key to activate the link.

Function	Access key
Return to the Home Page	1
Skip to content	2
Skip to main navigation	3
Skip to site map	4
Accessibility statement	0

Changing text size

Most browsers feature the ability to resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with.

This tool is available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

Browser	Instructions
Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6 (PC)	View > Text Size
Firefox, Netscape 8	View > Text Size
Opera	View > Zoom
Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla	View > Text Zoom
Safari (Mac)	View > Make Text Bigger

Alternatively, if you are using a modern browser and have a mouse with a wheel you can also alter the size of the text size by holding down CTRL (PC) or COMMAND (Mac) on your keyboard while scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel.

Browser compatibility

An aspect of web accessibility is browser compatibility. The following browsers may be used to view gosh.org web pages:

On a PC	On a Mac
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and above Netscape 7.1 and above Mozilla / Firefox 0.9 and above	Mozilla 1.6 and above Safari 1.2 and above Netscape 7.0 and above

Comments and suggestions

If you have any comments or suggestions on web accessibility issues relating to the gosh.org website, please contact us at webmaster@gosh.org