Accessibility
Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure people from all walks of life can have access to our pages.
Here are some tips to help you change your browser setting to better suit your needs.
Screen magnification
If you change the settings and find that this does not magnify the text enough to be useful, then it is worth investigating screen magnification software. Screen magnification can magnify up to 16 times. Products vary in price depending on features, such as whether speech support is built into the program.
Changing screen colours
· To override the default colours or colour schemes, if using Internet Explorer, go to the 'tools menu' and choose 'internet options'.
· When the dialog box appears, click on the 'colours' button and adjust accordingly by de-selecting the 'use windows colour box'.
· Then choose the 'accessibility' button and tick the box labelled 'ignore colours specified on web pages'.
Viewing the full screen
· To view the full screen and remove some of the browser's navigation bars, press F11 once.
· Press it again to return the navigation bar access keys.
Change your browser font size
To change the font size on Netscape Navigator 6.2 and 7.0
· Open your Netscape browser
· Hold down the 'ctrl' button on your keyboard and press the (+) key. You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again, repeat the procedure.
· Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements.
· If you need to make the text smaller, press 'ctrl' on your keyboard and the minus (-) key.
To change the font size for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0
· Open your Microsoft browser.
· Choose the drop-down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked 'view'.
· A list of options will appear in the drop-down menu - choose 'text size'.
· Another drop-down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, largest.
· Select large or largest.
To change the font size using Netscape Navigator 4.6
· Open your Netscape browser.
· Choose the drop-down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked 'edit'.
· A list of options will appear in the drop-down menu - choose 'preferences'.
· In a box on the left hand side of this window you will find a list of 'choices'.
· At the top of this box you will see the word 'appearance' and under that, 'fonts' and 'colours'.
· Select 'fonts'. In the box will be the text for encoding and a drop-down box. It will read 'western'. Underneath this, there will be the 'text variable width font and a drop-down box.
· Select the box and a drop-down menu should appear.
· Now choose 'ariel'.
In the box next to this there is the text 'size'. Choose the drop-down box and select 18.
· Underneath this there will be the text fixed width font' and a drop-down box. This should already be set by a default to 'courier new'.
