Accessibility

DMC Healthcare have designed our site in accordance with guidelines laid down by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The guidelines include:

  • Using meaningful ALT text for all images to provide descriptive text.
  • Using descriptive hyperlink text where necessary.
  • Avoiding the use of frames, which are difficult for special browsers to interpret.
  • Provide navigational short cuts for users of text only browsers and page readers.
  • Using an easy-to-see web colour scheme.
  • Using an easy to read font type, size and colour.

Changing the way you view our site

If you want to alter the size of the text displayed on this site you can change the option in your Internet browser.

To Enlarge Text

On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'

On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'

Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box

Click on 'OK'

Click 'text size'

Choose the size of text

The text size can be changed in Internet Explorer through the View > Text Size menu. And in Mozilla/Netscape, through the View > Text Zoom menu.

To increase the text size of this site, simply hold the CTRL key (PC) or CMD key (MAC) and use your mouse scroll up or down.

If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

 

Browser Support

The DMC Healthcare website has been built to operate on a wide range of browser technologies. Below is a list of browsers the site has been tested in.

  • Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
  • Google Chrome 
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Safari (PC/Mac)

Web Standards and Browser Compatibility

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and is built to W3C standards. The XHTML and CSS is valid and the site, according to our judgment of the guidelines, complies with the WAI Level 3 accessibility guidelines.

This site has been tested in all modern browsers on Windows and  MacOS. Pages on this site benefit from structured semantic markup. This means that if your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets, the content of each page is still readable and is presented in a logical order. You can choose to switch off style sheets in many modern browsers if you so wish.