Our Hospitals Your Services About Us Your Health Working With Us Covid-19 Start About Us Accessibility This website is still under development Please click on the links to find out about more about the Accessibility of this website: Standards Access / Shortcut Keys How to use access keys Tab indexing Increasing Page Text Size Changing Page Colours External Sites Screen Reader Setting Recommendations Help with Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files We are committed to making our website accessible to all users. This site has been designed to be Accessible for people with any degree of visual or motor impairment and users of screen readers. This site has been tested on the following devices - TalkBack on Android phone, VoiceOver on iPhone and JAWS on Desktop. Please contact gram.communications@nhs.scot if you have any technical difficulties using this website. If you have any difficulties accessing the documents published on this website or require them in a different format (such as Braille, large print etc.), please contact gram.communications@nhs.scot All other non-website enquiries NHS Grampian's aim is to ensure that we meet the needs of people with a disability by making sure that everyone can: access our buildings and grounds contact us in a way that is easiest for them get health information in many formats (such as Braille, large print etc.). If you need assistance (not relating to the website) please contact our Patient Services Manager (details below). NHS Grampian and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Nigel Firth Equality and Diversity Manager Ground Floor Room 4, Foresterhill House, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill Site, Aberdeen AB25 2ZB Tel: 01224 552245 Email: nigel.firth@nhs.scot Standards This site has been designed to be Accessible for people with any degree of visual or motor impairment and users of screen readers. Future developments include that all links to documents on this site will show the file type and size. Audio content and navigation for talking browsers and screen readers has been checked by listening to the site using JAWS. The site is also compatible with Supernova and IBM Home Page Reader when using Internet Explorer 5 or above. All trivial images have null Alt text. Access / Shortcut Keys To help those using a screen reader or a talking browser etc., you can get around our website without using a mouse by using access keys on your keyboard. These keys are based on the UK Government Access Keys system. How to use access keys Hold down the 'Alt' key (Windows PC) or 'Ctrl' key (Apple Mac) Select the key from the list above Press 'Enter' if using a Windows PC (an Apple Mac takes you straight there) Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac) Access keys are not supported Netscape 6 and earlier (PC and Mac) Access keys are not supported Tab indexing Links in the site have been given a tab weighting to allow quick access to each link. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows: Top navigation Breadcrumb navigation Bottom navigation Increasing Page Text Size You can increase the size of the text even further using your web browser options. Internet Explorer Page - Text size - Largest Firefox View - Text Size - Increase Opera Zoom and 100+ Percentage Safari Apple Key and '+' Key Edge Settings and more... - Zoom - / + Chrome Customise and control Google Chrome - Zoom - / + Opera Zoom and 100+ Percentage Safari Apple Key and '+' Key Changing Page Colours You may also change the colours using your web browser options. Internet Explorer Click on Tools - Internet Options Then click on the Accessibility button in the window that pops up Then select the 'Ignore colors' option. Note you could also select the 'Ignore font styles' and 'Ignore font size' options to alter the look and size of the text. Firefox View - Page Style - No Style Opera View - Style - User Mode Safari Not Available External Sites All links to external sites open in a new window. NHS Grampian is not responsible for the content or accessibility of these referenced sites. Screen Reader Setting Recommendations For users of JAWS we recommend the following sort order title|text|alt|href as the best combination to set. Help with Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files We recognise that not all of the pdf files on our website are as accessible as they could be and would ask you to bear with us as we continue to improve this aspect of the site. If you have any difficulties accessing the documents published on this website or require them in a different format (such as Braille, large print etc.), please contact gram.communications@nhs.scot The Adobe site offers: Free Acrobat Reader Accessibility Conversion Tools PDF Accessibility Information There is more information on PDF Accessibility and other issues from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind) Access Centre. 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