Accessibility

We make a continuing effort for this site to be accessible and easy to use for everyone, and follow the Worldwide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Practical Help with Browsers

• Adjusting Internet Explorer

Increasing the size of the text

Some users find screen text easier to read by increasing the size that the text is displayed.

To do this in Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the 'View menu', select 'Text Size' and then select either 'Larger' or 'Largest'.

Changing the display on the screen

You can remove the background colours and choose which colours to have text, links and visited links displayed. 

You can make these changes by:

Then tick the box 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'. 

Then click the 'OK' button. This will switch off the background colours.

Un-tick the box 'Use Windows colours'.  You can then specify which colours you would prefer to be displayed for the text and for links. 

You can also specify colours to be used for links your have previously visited and links when your mouse hovers over them.

• Adjusting Firefox Browser
  
  

Increasing the size of the text

Go to the 'View menu', select 'Text Size' and then select 'Increase'.  You can have the same effect by using the keyboard and press the keys 'Ctrl' and '+' at the same time.

Changing the display on the screen

To change the background colours and choose which colours to have text, links and visited links displayed.

You can make these changes by:

1. Going to the 'Tools' menu at the top of the page
2. Selecting 'Options...' from that menu
3. Clicking the 'Font & Colours...' button

On the 'Font & colours' box you can over-ride the colours by ticking the boxes marked 'Always use my: Fonts' and 'Always use my: Colours'.

You can specify which colours you prefer text and links to be displayed in, and which background colour should show on the page. You can also choose colours to be used for links your have previously visited and links when your mouse hovers over them.