The Plantlife website
This website has been designed to allow the user to modify its appearance if they have difficulty reading the text. It has been coded to comply with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines and is compatible with screen readers, and other types of assistive technologies.
How to change visibility features
The following suggestions to improve the visibility of web pages will apply to any site that you visit. However, you may find that not all pages within a site are compatible. The images on the screen will not be affected. These instructions have been tested with Internet Explorer version 5 and Netscape version 4.7.
Keyboard access information
The support for accesskeys varies from browser to browser however you will find below instructions to use accesskeys on the most popular browsers.Mozilla and Netscape: ALT + 9 for example will return you to this page.
Internet Explorer users may need to click ALT+[Accesskey], then Enter.
For the "In the UK" section of the site
| FUNCTION | KEY |
| Skip Navigation | s |
| In the UK index page | 1 |
| Home page | 2 |
| Join us | 3 |
| Who we are, what we do... | 4 |
| Saving species and habitats | 5 |
| Our nature reserves | 6 |
| Campaigning for change | 7 |
| Support Plantlife | 8 |
| Get Involved | 9 |
| Discovering wild plants and fungi | d |
| Plantlife Wales | w |
| Plantlife Scotland | g |
| Across the globe index page | i |
| Accessibility Statement | a |
| About us | u |
| Contact us | c |
| Site map | m |
For the "Across the globe " section of the site
| FUNCTION | KEY |
| Skip Navigation | s |
| Across the globe index page | 1 |
| Home page | 2 |
| Join us | 3 |
| Who we are, what we do... | 4 |
| Important Plant Areas | 5 |
| Medicinal Plants Conservation | 6 |
| Policies and strategies | 7 |
| Plant Europa | 8 |
| Data zone | 9 |
| International network and partners | i |
| In the UK index page | b |
| Accessibility Statement | a |
| About us | u |
| Contact us | c |
| Site map | m |
For the "About us " section of the site
| FUNCTION | KEY |
| Skip Navigation | s |
| Home page | 1 |
| About us | 2 |
| About this website | 3 |
| Site map | 4 |
| Our work in the UK | 5 |
| Across the globe | 6 |
| Accessibility Statement | a |
| Contact us | c |
| Site map | m |
For the "Plant Diversity Challenge" section of the site
| FUNCTION | KEY |
| Skip Navigation | s |
| Plantlife home page | 1 |
| Plant Diversity Challenge home page | 2 |
| News | 3 |
| Objective 1 - Understanding and Documenting | 4 |
| Objective 2 - Conserving Plant Diversity | 5 |
| Objective 3 - Using Plant Diversity Sustainably | 6 |
| Objective 4 - Promoting Education and Awareness | 7 |
| Objective 5 - Building Capacity | 8 |
| Link To Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | 9, k |
| Link to JNCC | j |
| Accessibility Statement | a |
| Site map | m |
For Microsoft Internet Explorer
To apply the font and colour changes permanently:
on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
on the 'General' tab, click on 'Accessibility'
click in each of the three boxes to show ticks
click 'OK'
To enlarge the text:
on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
on the 'General' tab, click 'Accessibility'
tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
click 'OK'
on the 'Browser' menu click 'View'
click 'Text size'
choose the size of text
Combinations of fonts, typefaces and background colours used in web page design may result in text being difficult to read. However, you can choose settings to suit you. For example black text on a yellow background gives a distinct contrast.
To change the text colour and background colour:
on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
on the 'General' tab, click 'Colours'
deselect the 'Use Windows Colours' tick box
select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour
click 'OK'
select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour
click 'OK'
To prevent graphics from appearing on web pages:
under 'Tools', click 'Internet Options'
on the 'Advanced' tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading
click on the graphics options ('animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images') to remove the ticks
click on 'Apply', and then click on 'OK'
if graphics still appear, select 'View' then 'Refresh' from the toolbar, or press F5
To change the size of the window:
click 'View' then 'Full Screen' from the toolbar, or press F11.
For Netscape Communicator
To make any changes to your browser settings, you should first open the 'Preferences' box by clicking on 'Edit' and selecting 'Preferences'. You may then choose to make any of the changes listed below.
To change the text font:
click on 'Appearance'
click 'Font'
choose the 'Variable Width Font' and 'Fixed Width Font' you want to use
click 'OK'
If you want to set these fonts for all future usage on your browser, click on 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'.
To change the text and background colours:
click on 'Appearance'
click 'Colours'
select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour
click 'OK'
select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour
click 'OK'
click 'OK' again to close 'Preferences'
To set these colours as your browser default, click on 'Always use my colours, overriding document'.
To prevent images from loading on web pages:
select 'Advanced'
click in the box marked 'Automatically load images' to remove the tick
click 'OK'
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Use of the Plantlife logo
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Linking to material on the Plantlife website
You are welcome to link to material on the Plantlife website so long as appropriate credit is given in the link title. You may not link to images or other downloadable resources unless explicit permission from the Web Team Manager has been sought, or it falls under the general copyright statement above.
Requesting a link from the Plantlife website to yours
The Plantlife website does not have a generic links page. We link to other sites when we feel it adds value to a page on this site.
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External Links
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Design
The design of this site was undertaken by Gopher Sytems on behalf of Plantlife International.