Accessibility is important

LCBT recognises the importance of providing a website that is easy to use and accessible to everyone. On this page we outline our ongoing commitment to being accessible and user-friendly and explain some useful features.

Accessibility features on this website include:

Increasing the text size

You can increase or decrease the size of the text throughout the site using your browser options. The options and keyboard shortcuts differ depending on your operating system and browser type.

  • To increase the text size on a PC using Microsoft Internet Explorer, select 'View', then 'Text size', then select your desired size.
  • To increase the text size on a PC using Netscape or Firefox, simply use Ctrl and the '+' key. 
  • To reduce the text size use Ctrl and the '-' key.  Ctrl 0 sets the text to 'normal' or default size.
  • MAC users should use the 'apple' key and '+' keys to increase the text size, 'apple' and '-' to decrease the text size and 'apple' and '0' to set the text to 'normal' or default size.
  • If you’re a PC user with a scroll-wheel mouse, you can use ‘Ctrl’ and the scroll-wheel to increase text size.

Other features

HTML heading tags are used to convey the document layout and make it simpler for screen readers to navigate using a list of headers.  Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists, again making navigation simpler for screen reader users and easier for repeated menus to be skipped over.

Our pages are optimised to be viewed at a screen resolution of 1200 x 780 pixels; however the design also accommodates users viewing at 800 x 600 or 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution.

For more information and advice on how to change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse to make this and other websites more accessible, please visit the BBC website My Web My Way. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility)

Commitment to accessibility

LCBT acknowledge the importance of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 1995, the World Wide Web Consortiums' (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) all of which state that provision must be made to ensure that all products and services are accessible to disabled users.

LCBT is committed to making our online services inclusive.  Accessibility has a positive effect on general usability and we believe that websites that are accessible and usable benefit everyone.

Standards compliance

Our pages aim to conform to a minimum Level 1 (A) compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility guidelines. Where possible we aim for Level 2 (AA) requirements to be achieved.