Accessibility
Ofqual is committed to providing a service that is accessible to everyone, at the same level and on equal terms. Our website is designed to maximise ease of use by everyone, including people with disabilities.
Text size
Most internet browsers include a feature that gives you the ability to change the size of the text on the screen. Our site has been designed to work with these features.
You can often change the text size by holding Ctrl on your keyboard and rolling the wheel on your mouse. For other methods, see below.
- Changing the text size in Internet Explorer (opens in new window)
- Changing the text size in Mozilla Firefox (opens in new window)
- 'Zooming' in Opera (opens in new window)
Web standards
Our site has been designed to conform to all relevant technical standards and recommendations. Some of these are listed below.
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (opens in new window) (all pages conform to Level A; most conform to the Double-A or Triple-A standards)
- The Cabinet Office's guidelines for UK government websites (opens in new window)
- The World-Wide Web Consortium's standards for XHTML 1.0 (opens in new window) Transitional and CSS level 2 (opens in new window)
- We aim to follow the best practice guidelines described in the British Standards Institution's Publicly Available Specification 78 (opens in new window) (PAS 78).
Downloading PDF documents
Many of the documents you'll find for download on our website are available in the Adobe PDF format.
Adobe Reader software allows users to enlarge the document they are viewing to make the text easier to read for those people with visual impairments.
You can use an external screen reader on PDF documents or use their own "Read Out Loud" option.
Adobe also has a tool that people can use to convert PDF into other formats such as HTML or ASCII to meet accessibility requirements.