Accessibility

Viewing options

For your convenience, we've provided you with a number of different ways in which you can view this website.

Most people find a font style such as Arial or Verdana more comfortable or easy to read.

This website uses Verdana, Garamond, Helvetica, Arial, and sans-serif fonts. The fonts are sized in 'ems' and 'px' but it may be of further help to many to follow the links to accessibility websites shown below.

If these sizes are still not suitable, please follow how to increase the size of the text.

To increase the text size using one of these browsers

Internet Explorer: View Text size
Firefox: View Text size
Opera: File Preferences Fonts Minimum font size (pixels)

Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key. Scrolling up with your mouse will make text smaller and scrolling down will make text larger. This will work on your emails too.

Happily, most browsers allow users to enlarge or shrink the font size according to their preferences. The Opera browser even allows the entire document to be enlarged, including images.

See here to download Opera Browser

These links will also show you how you can change fonts in your browser and many other ways to access the web.

Web Accessibility - WC3

My Computer - My Way - Making Text Easier to See

BBC - My Web - My Way- Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.

Web Credible - Web usability

If you want to brush up your computing skills, try out the free BBC Webwise Online Course here.

BBC Webwise Online Course - BBC Webwise Online Course