MOD Accessibility Statement

Accessibility

We have made every effort to make the MOD website accessible and easy to use for everyone.

Our aspiration is to conform to the Guidelines for UK government websites and the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA, and to ensure that this Web accessibility standard is achieved and maintained.

• Web Accessibility Initiative
• Guidelines for UK government websites

Access Keys

• ALT plus A links to this site's Accessibility Statement.
• ALT plus H links to the Defence home page.
• ALT plus C skips to an index of the contents of this page.
• ALT plus N skips to the navigation on each page.
• ALT plus T jumps to the top of the page.

The contents of this page with keys to jump to them follows...

• ALT plus 1 skips to Defence For : links to role based hubs for different visitors.
• ALT plus 2 skips to Top Choices : The top tasks you might want to carry out using the Defence website.
• ALT plus 3 skips to Defence News .
• ALT plus 4 skips to a set of interesting links from around Defence and the Forces.

Software to open documents

This website provides links to documents in portable document format (PDF). You may need special software to read these files. The link "Tips on using PDFs" on the right will enable you to download free software to allow you to open these files.

Text to Speech

www.mod.uk is speech enabled using Browsealoud, a free plugin which reads web pages aloud.

Browsealoud currently supports the following browsers:

• IE4 upwards
• All MSN versions
• All Compuserve versions
• All AOL versions
• Mozilla
• Firefox
• Netscape 4 upwards

To begin using browsealoud to read content from www.mod.uk download the free plug-in.

Users of Apple's Safari browser should use the built in Text to Speech function.

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