This statement relates to content available on The School of Pharmacy, University of London website. If you are experiencing any problems with accessing this website, please contact our Webmaster in the first instance.

Accessibility Features

This site has been developed to ensure content is available to the widest possible audience, including readers using assistive technology or accessibility features. By adhering to guidelines for accessible web design, we acknowledge the diversity of communication methods, available technologies and abilities of web-users in the community.

Features employed in this site to make information more accessible are:

• Standards Compliance - The School of Pharmacy strives to maintain conformance to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The public pages on this site meet the criteria for AA compliance with WCAG guidelines.
  This site meets all the coding criteria for compliance with W3C CSS (cascading style sheets) and HTML 4.01 Transitional.
• Printer-Friendly - The pages on this website are all printer-friendly. The School of Pharmacy logo, name and the page content will appear on any printouts you make.
• Visual Layout - This site uses CSS for visual layout, meaning that if your browser or browsing device does not support CSS, the content of each page should still be readable.
• Font Sizes - All text uses relative font sizes so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers (see instructions below).
• Images - All informational images contain an ALT tag and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute.
• Flexible Layout - All pages use flexible page formats so pages can be automatically resized for different window sizes and screen resolutions.

External Links and Document Formats

External links will be opened in a new browser window to allow you to switch between The School of Pharmacy website and the newly opened page.

You may need to use plug-in applications in order to access or download some files on this site. Here is a list of applications and links to free downloads.

• Documents with the icon  are in PDF (Portable Document Format), before you can read them you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded from www.adobe.com.
• Documents with the icon  are in DOC format (MS Word). Microsoft WORD viewer.

Changing the Text Size

If you wish to increase the size of fonts on this (and other) sites, use the following instructions for popular web browsers:

• Internet Explorer 5.x and above- select View | Text Size from the browser's menu bar. You can also select Tools | Internet Options | Accessibility | Ignore fonts.
• Netscape 4.x - select View | Increase or Decrease Font from the browser's menu bar or press the Control key and the [ key together.
• Opera - press the + or - (minus) key on your number pad

Accessibility References and Software

W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)
JAWS, a screen reader for Windows.
Home Page Reader, IBM's screen reader for Windows.
Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Firefox, a standards-compliant, secure visual web-browser with many user-configurable accessibility-related features, including: text zooming; user stylesheets; image toggling. A free download is available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and other operating systems.

The School of Pharmacy, University of London is committed to enabling as many people as possible to take advantage of higher education. A copy of the School’s disability statement, which sets out in detail what facilities and services are available to students with disabilities, is available from the Registrar.

The School of Pharmacy has a minicom number so that people with hearing impairments can contact us:

Minicom Number: 020 7837 3992