The Institute of Health Equity is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience – regardless of ability or browsing technology and including those who have visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairments.

We are actively working to increase the accessibility of our website.

Exceptions

While The Institute of Health Equity strives to adhere to the standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website, especially those developed historically. We are committed to achieving a higher standard of accessibility and are working hard to make the existing website and future developments of the website as accessible as possible within our capacity.

Easy Read Reports

There are some Easy Read versions of our reports on this website.

PDF files

Some of the information on our website is in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe website.

Most PDFs of our publications have been tagged to improve accessibility, however some historical PDF files on this site may have not. PDFs can be tagged for improved accessibility on request; please email l.beswick@ucl.ac.uk with any such requests.

For more information about PDF accessibility see the Adobe website accessibility section.

Guidance on using this website

You can change the way this website looks to suit your needs. The settings available differ from browser to browser, but most browsers offer some, or all, of the following:

Text size

If you find the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily in your browser settings. To do this you should simply adjust your browser’s settings.

If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest.

If you use Mozilla Firefox, go to the ‘View Menu’, select ‘Text Size’ and the select ‘Increase’. You can also increase the text size by using the keyboard, pressing ‘Ctrl’ and ‘+’ at the same time.

Need more help?

For more information and help on accessibility and changing your browser settings please visit the following websites:

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Equality and Human Rights Commission

Contact us

Please give us feedback on your experience of using this website. If you find something difficult to see or use, we might be able to help. We are committed to improving the accessibility of the site. Please email us at l.beswick@ucl.ac.uk.