Action Medical Research’s website has been designed to be accessible to all.

As a charity, we strive to show the same lack of discrimination that disease and disability do. Therefore we have created our website using standards-compliant XHTML and CSS coding, to the ‘AA’ access standards laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). ‘AA’ standards are those recommended by the RNIB.

If you do have any difficulties accessing any of the content on our site, please contact webmaster@action.org.uk, describing the problem you’re having, and we’ll do what we can to help.

Browsers

Our website can be viewed in any browser, but we recommend Firefox — the free, secure web browser from the open source community.

Downloading files

Certain documents on this website have been made available in formats suitable for you to download. You may need separate software to view and print the documents once you’ve saved them to your computer.

PDFs

PDFs are commonly viewed using Adobe Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe’s website. It’s available for Windows, Mac, linux and other popular operating systems.

To read PDF documents with a screen reader please reference the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs

For alternatives to Adobe Reader, try searching Google for “pdf viewer”.

Word documents

Word documents can be viewed in Microsoft Word and many other word processing programs. If you don’t have access to Microsoft Word, you can download the Word Viewer from Microsoft’s website (only available for Windows).

You could also try OpenOffice, a free alternative to Microsoft Office that can open most Word documents, and is available for Window, Mac, linux and other operating systems.