accessibility
Accessibility statement
GlaxoSmithKline has an ongoing commitment to ensure that the content on this website is accessible to the widest range of visitors, regardless of disability.
Standards Compliance
This site is built to comply with the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict document type definition. This compliance ensures that the underlying structure of the website is accessible to all web users. Alongside this, the site is validated against the WAI AA checkpoint to make sure the content within the site is also accessible to all web users. Due to the nature of the technology used to create the forms on the site, these pages do not validate fully. Every care has been taken to ensure that this is the only exception.
Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide quick links to common website features, without the need to use a mouse.
To navigate with access keys:
- Internet Explorer for Windows
Hold down the 'Alt' key and the access key, followed by the 'Enter' key - Firefox for Windows
Hold down the 'Shift' key, the 'Alt' key and the accesskey, followed by the 'Enter' key - Opera for Windows or Macintosh
Hold down the 'Shift' key, the 'Esc' key and the accesskey, followed by the 'Enter' key - Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac, Safari 1.2 (Mac only), Firefox for Mac, Mozilla for Mac, Netscape 6+ for Mac
Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and the access key
Please note: Access keys are not supported by browsers prior to Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape 6.0. Access keys are not supported by the Camino browser.
The pages on this website comply with the recommended UK Government access keys standard:
1 - Home page
2 - Media centre
3 - Site map
4 - Search
5 - About us
8 - Legal notices
9 - Contact us
0 - Accessibility statement
S - Skip navigation
Images
All content images on this site are provided with descriptive ALT attributes, except where images are used for decoration. In this case the ALT attribute will be left blank to prevent it being displayed by text or speech browsers.
Multimedia Content
This site utilises Adobe Flash to provide engaging multimedia content. Where this is displayed on the site an alternative version of the content is available for users who cannot use flash for any reason:
- Animations are replaced with static images
- Graphs are replaced with tabular data
- Videos are provided with full transcripts
- Quizzes are available in PDF format for download
Navigation
All pages contain a link to the home page (access key 1), press centre (access key 2), sitemap (access key 3), term & conditions (access key 8), contact us (access key 9) and the accessibility statement (access key 0).
A skip navigation option (access key S) is available on the majority of pages to users of screen readers and text-only browsers. Skip navigation enables the user to jump straight to the content area of a page, bypassing the top and side navigation.
The navigation system is consistent throughout the site to create clear, simple navigation pathways.
Sitemap
There is a sitemap of alli.co.uk (access key 3) which can help you navigate around the website.
PDFs
In many cases we have provided an HTML version of PDFs on this website, however if you would like to use a screen reader to read PDF documents you can find out more at the Adobe access website .