There are many ways that you can increase the text size on our website. How you do this will depend on the following:

• • Which operating system are you using (e.g. Windows, Mac, iOS, Android)?

• • Which of the following do you want to increase the font size for?

    • • Just this website
    • • All websites you visit on this device
    • • Everything on this device

To temporarily change font size for a web page

The easiest way to increase the size of the text when reading a webpage or document is to  change it temporarily. To do this:

Windows users: Hold down the control button (ctrl) and click on the plus (+) or minus (-) buttons to increase or decrease the font size.

Mac users: Hold down the cmd button (⌘) and click on the plus (+) or minus (-) buttons to increase or decrease the font size.

To permanently change font size for specific websites

If there are specific websites you would like to change the font size for, this can be altered in your internet browser settings. To find out how to do this for the web browser you use, search the following online:

‘How to change the font size for specific websites on [Insert name of internet browser, e.g. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox).’

To change the font size permanently for your internet browser

You can also change the font size for any webpage you visit in your internet browser. To find out how, search the following online:

‘How to change the font size in [Insert name of internet browser, e.g. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox).’

You can go back into your settings at any time to reverse these changes if they are not working for you.

Please note, not all websites are set up for you to be able to increase font size on (though you can on our site).

Increase font size for everything on your device

You can also increase the font size for anything you use on your device, through the device settings.

To find out how, search the following online:

‘How to increase the font size for my device [insert device name here]’

Altering the brightness of your device screen can have a number of benefits, including:

• Putting less strain on your eyes
• Helping you to sleep better if you need to look at your device shortly before you go to bed
• Saving battery power

You can lower the brightness of your screen or change to ‘dark mode’ (where the background colour is black rather than white) through your device and internet browser settings.

Website
Our website an be automatically translated into a number of languages. This translation tool can be accessed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

YouTube
All of the videos on our website are hosted on our YouTube account. Automated captions can be added to any YouTube video. When you open a video, you can turn on captions and select the language you want them in by clicking on the settings cog button at the bottom of the viewing screen. Select ‘subtitles/CC’ for options to turn captions on and ‘Auto translate’ to select a language.

Information for the South Asian Population
In addition to the above auto-translation features, information specifically created for the South Asian population can be found here:
www.nras.org.uk/apnijung

We will continue to work towards making our health information as accessible and easy to understand as possible for as many people as possible. Here are some of the ways in which we do this:

We are currently working on improving the accessibility of our website. Here is a summary of some of the improvements currently being made across the website:

• • Auto-translation tools (see above)

• • Offering information in a variety of different formats, including video, web article and downloadable or printed booklets.

• • Starting some of our longer articles with an ‘At a glance’ summary.

• • Putting all new website articles through a literacy review process. All existing articles will also go through this process as they come up for review.

• • Using ‘alt text’ to give image descriptions for people reading or website through screenreader software.

• • Auto-translation tools (see above)