ACCESSIBILITY

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) website conforms to the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Priority 1. It also meets most Priority 2 and 3 requirements. For more information visit the WAI website.

Specific information which may help you:

Access Keys

Screen Readers

Web Browsers

Access Keys

The main menu is accessible to screen readers, and a link is provided to skip to content. In addition there is a range of supported access keys on this website, as follows:

  • H - Home
  • A - About Us
  • C - Contact Us
  • U - UK Branch Personnel
  • F - The Foundation
  • O - The Founder
  • N - Funding
  • E - Exclusions
  • P - Partnerships
  • L - Cultural Understanding
  • F - Fulfilling Potential
  • V - Environment
  • M - Maximising Social and Cultural Value
  • R - Recent Grants Awarded
  • W - News
  • S - Sign up for News/Events
  • N - Events
  • I - Sign up for News/ Events
  • S - Press
  • G - Sign up for Press Releases
  • B - Publications index
  • L - Publications pages

Screen Readers

This website is designed to work well with screen readers. Should you have difficulty with your specific screen reader then the following information may be of help. For best results we recommend that you disable Adobe Flash as in doing so you will see maximally accessible non-Flash versions of content.

This can be done in Firefox as follows: Navigate through these menu options:

  • Tools
  • Add-ons
  • Plugins
  • Shockwave Flash
  • Disable

This can be done in Internet Explorer 7.0 and later:

  • Navigate through these menu options:
  • Tools
  • Internet Options
  • Program Tab
  • Manage add-on options button
  • Filters
  • Add-ons that run without requiring permission
  • Shockwave Object
  • Disable

Web Browsers

The website has been optimised for the following browsers:

Windows:

Internet Explorer 7 and 8; Firefox 3.0 and 3.5; Opera 10.

Mac:

Safari 4 and 5; Firefox 3.0 and 3.5.

You will also find the following accessibility features on this website:

  • Main content area text sizes are relative. You can adjust the font size in your browser to make the site easier to view. Best results are obtained by using Page Zoom.
  • Cascading stylesheets, rather than tables, are used to mark up the content.
  • The content is still legible without stylesheets, but does not look as well-designed.
  • Navigation of the site pages does not require scripts.
  • All images which communicate information have appropriate tagging.
  • A link is provided to skip to the main page content on every page.
  • You can download the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in here to read PDF documents.