myUKinfo provides a range of ways that users can access and utilise the information within the website. 

myUKinfo offers information in English as well as a range of languages to allow speakers of other languages to access important information for living and working in the UK.

Making the site easier to use
Most browsers will allow you to change the size of text on your screen. We have tried to ensure that our pages display properly whenever you choose this option.

Text Sizing

The text size within your browser can be increased or decreased by clicking the +A and -A text which are located at the top right corner of the website. 

You can also change the size of your text within your browser. Here is a guide to how to do this, depending on the browser you are using:

Internet Explorer
From the menu at the top of your screen select "View" and then "Text Size". Select a text size option.

Firefox and Mozilla
Press the "Ctrl" and "+" keys at the same time to increase text size.

Press the "Ctrl" and "-" keys at the same time to decrease text size.

Opera
With your "Num Lock" key turned on:
Press 0 to increase text size.
Press 9 to decrease text size.

Safari
Press the "Ctrl" and "+" keys at the same time to increase text size.
Press the "Ctrl" and "-" keys at the same time to decrease text size.

Links

Clicking on a link to any document or to content on external sites will open in a new window in your browser. If you are on a page that is not in English a pop-up window will appear warning you that you are leaving the myUKinfo site and going to a site that might not be in your language. All links, labels and headings have user friendly names and explain the page you are linking to.

Text Alternatives

Alternative (ALT) tags are provided for images in case they are not visible. Intuitive buttons captions and descriptions are available for input fields. Helper descriptions are provided for functionality to describe what a user needs to click to achieve result.

Images

Where images are used they are accompanied by a text alternative, which will show in a 'tooltip' when you hover over the image. This will normally describe what the image is intended to convey. Images are not used to display text, all labels, captions and headings are displayed in text

Keyboard Accessibility

All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface. A user can use TAB to move through all items.

Input Assistance

Error messages are highlighted with red border and colour. Error Identification - A field with an error is highlighted with red border. Labels or Instructions - required fields are marked with (*).

Navigation

There are various navigation methods to help a user move quickly to the content they require and to maintain site orientation. Dropdown menus allow users to quickly find an item. Left sidebar menu helps to track the navigation branch and is available on each content page describing pages within a section. All menu items have a drop down hint helping users to understand its purpose. A breadcrumb device is used above the page title to help orientation.

Document Formats

Any documents linked to within this site are in Acrobat(PDF) format. The Acrobat Reader software needed to read such documents is freely available and you can download it from the Adobe site. Adobe also provide PDF software for use with access technology. Further details are available at access.adobe.com.

Language Learning

In order to promote English language learning, the information is identical on all language pages.  A user can alternate between languages by selecting a flag, which denotes the language in the top right corner.  The user will then be directed to the same page they were previously viewing, translated into the language selected.