Accessibility statement

Welcome to Breckfield Surgery Accessibility Statement. Our website has been designed to help those people with disabilities overcome some of the barriers the internet can present. Our site is A - compliant and should be accessible by most people, regardless of their ability or the methods they use to browse the internet.

If you have any problems accessing this site or any of the information contained within it, please contact us on Email: john.godfrey@livgp.nhs.uk and we’ll do our best to rectify any issues you may have. We are always keen to continue improving accessibility to our services, so we also welcome any feedback you can provide us with that will help us to make our services easier to use for everyone.

Navigational Aids 
All pages contained within this site provide the following:

- A link to the site map.
- A link to this accessibility statement.
- A link to the home page.

Links 
- Colour alone is not used to signify the presence of a link.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- The site map provides alternative access to pages within this site. This ensures that if links stop working, the pages will remain accessible.
- No links open in a new window without alerting the user first.

Access Keys 
Access keys provide instant links to important pages. They are useful for everyone but especially those users who don’t use a mouse or other pointing devices, such as head wands.

Access keys are activated in different ways, depending on which browser you are using and whether you are using a Macintosh or Windows PC.

Most browsers support the following: Windows users can press ALT + SHIFT +an access key and Macintosh users can press CTRL (Control) + an access key. Please be aware that those people browsing with Internet Explorer may also need to press ENTER after they have entered their access key.

All pages on this site have the following access keys active:

Access key 1 - Home
Access key 2 - About us
Access key 3 - The Team
Access key 4 - Services
Access key 5 - Care at the Chemists
Access key 5 - Useful Links/ Number

Access key D -Doctors
Access key N - Nurses
Access key T- Team
Access key 0- Opening Hours
Access key A - Appoinments
Access key R - Registration
Access key P - Repeat Prescriptions
Access key H- Out of Hours
Access key V - Home Visits
Access key E - Emergencies

Access key I - Accessibilty
Access key S - Sitemap

User Preferences
- This site uses font sizes that can be changed to suit your preference using the ‘text size’ option found in most browsers.
- All pages are designed using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). If your browser does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- This site can be navigated using the tab button on your keyboard.

Images
All images and Flash elements in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Acronyms and Abbreviations
All acronyms and abbreviations on this site are accompanied by explanatory text upon their first occurrence on a page.

Accessibility Software
The following accessibility software is available:

- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Window Eyes, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Browsers
This website is compatible with the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 6
Opera 7.54
Mozilla 1.8
Firefox
Safari
Netscape Navigator 7.2