Web accessibility

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web (W3C - http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php)

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust aims to make this website accessible to those with disabilities so that they can derive the same level of benefit from it as able-bodied users. 

All new content on the site aims to be compliant with W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level "Double-A".  Older pages on the site are periodically reviewed and any found to have accessibility problems are fixed or removed.

If you have problems using any part of our site please the web team know so that we can investigate the problem.

Downloadable documents

If you require any of the documents available for download from this site in a different format or language, please contact us and we will send this to you.

How to make the web easier to access

In addition to the features on our site, there are a number of changes that everyone can make to their browser or computer to improve the accessiblity of the web in general.  Details of these can be found on the following websites.

Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/default.aspx

MAC - http://www.apple.com/accessibility/

Linux - http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki