The European Patent Office strives to make its web presence as accessible as
possible to people with disabilities, in accordance with the guidelines issued
by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .
Some parts of our web presence are more accessible than others, but our aim
is that they should all be at least level "A" compliant with the WAI
guidelines. Many pages are already "AA" compliant, and our ultimate goal
is to achieve "AA" compliance wherever possible.
Currently, our Patent Information Expert Services are not accessible to
users with disabilities. We aim to rectify that in the near future.
Content of some e-learning modules may not be visualised correctly in all browsers.
Font size
The EPO website is designed so that you can change the text size using your
browser settings.
- Internet Explorer
Select "Zoom" 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 (-).
- Chrome
Select “Zoom” in the Chrome menu and click on plus (+) to increase the text size or minus (-) to decrease it. You can also hold down the Crtl key and press the plus (+) or minus (-) key.
- 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 "breadcrumbs":
Contact us
If you encounter an inaccessible page on this website, please report the
problem to website@epo.org. We cannot
guarantee that we will be able to fix it immediately, but we will make every
effort to do so in reasonable time.
