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Accessibility
The European Patent Office strives to make this website as accessible as possible to people with disabilities, following the web content accessibility guidelines issued by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .
Some parts of the website are more accessible than others, but all should achieve at least level "A" compliance with the WAI guidelines. Most new pages are "AA" compliant, and the EPO's ultimate aim is to achieve "AAA" compliance for the entire site.
Font size
The EPO website is designed so that you can change the text size using your browser settings.
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Internet Explorer 6
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Internet Explorer 7
Select "Text size" in the "View" menu (hit the Alt key if the menu is not visible). You can also zoom in and out - increasing or decreasing the size of all elements, not just the text - by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing plus (+) or minus (-). -
Firefox
Select "Text size" in the "View" menu or hold down the Ctrl key and press the plus key (+) to increase the text size or the minus key (-) to decrease it. -
Safari
Select "Make text bigger" or "Make text smaller" in the "View" menu, or press Command and plus (+) or minus (-).
Breadcrumb navigation
You can navigate quickly back through the structure of the website by using the so-called breadcrumbs:
Access keys
Access keys are currently being defined for www.epo.org and will be implemented in due course.
Contact us
If you encounter an inaccessible page while using this website, please report the problem to website@epo.org . We cannot guarantee that we will be able to fix your problem immediately, but we will make every effort to resolve issues reported by our users in reasonable time.