About the Ministry of Health website
Accessibility

• How to adjust the text size
• Access keys

Adjusting the text size
This site has been designed so that you are able to adjust the size of the text on screen.

Internet Explorer 5+

• Click on the "View" menu
• Click on "Text Size"
• Click on your chosen size

Mozilla FireFox

• Click on the "View" menu at the top of the screen
• Click on "Text Size"
• Click on "Increase"
• Keyboard shortcut: Control-+

Netscape 7 / Mozilla Browser

• Click on the "View" menu
• Click on "Text Zoom"
• Click on "Larger" or a percentage greater than 100%
• Keyboard shortcut: Control-+

Opera 7

• Click on the "View" menu
• Click on "Zoom"
• Click on a percentage larger than 100%, or use the +100% or +10% options at the bottom of the menu
• Keyboard shortcut: + or Control-+

Internet Explorer for Macintosh

• Click on the "View" menu
• Click on "Text Zoom"
• Click on "Larger" or a percentage greater than 100%

Safari (Macintosh-only)

• Click on the "View" menu
• Click on "Make Text Bigger"
• Keyboard shortcut: Apple-+

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Access Keys
This website uses Access Keys to increase accessibility for visitors who have difficulties using a mouse or pointer tool. The Access Keys are progressively being implemented on this site and not all access keys are currently working on all pages. The Ministry of Health apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.

By using the keyboard shortcuts below various pages on this site can be accessed without using a mouse, provided your browser is Internet Explorer 5 or above or Netscape 6 or above.

Windows: use Alt+[number]+Enter to use with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 and later.

For Netscape 6 and later use Alt+[number]. Where [number] is one selected from the list below.
Macintosh: same as above but use 'Ctrl' instead of 'Alt'.

For example to access the home page of this site in Internet Explorer 5 or later press the keys: Alt 1 Enter at the same time.

0 = Access keys (this page)
1 = Home
2 = Site index
3 = About
4 = Search
5 = Forums/Consultation documents
6 = Publications
7 = Disability
8 = Links
9 = Contact
/ = New Zealand Government Online web portal
. = What's new
] = Copyright information
[ = Content