Accessibility

How to change the settings of the following browsers

Internet Explorer (IE)

Change font sizes in IE
- IE7: From the Page menu, choose the Text size option
- IE6 and below: From the View menu, choose the Text size option

Change colour and font settings in IE
1. From the Tools menu, choose Internet Options
2. Select the Accessibility... button (bottom right)
3. By checking the desired checkboxes, you can force the browser to ignore the colours, font styles and font sizes

Disable images in IE
1. From the Tools menu, choose Internet Options
2. Select the Advanced tab (top right)
3. Scroll down to the Multimedia section
4. Untick the checkbox labelled Show pictures

Mozilla Firefox

Change font sizes in Firefox
From the View menu, choose the Text Size option

Change colour and font settings in Firefox
1. On OSX: With Firefox in focus, select the Firefox menu, followed by Preferences
2. On other platforms: From the Tools menu, choose Options
3. Select the Content tab. To select fonts:
Within the Fonts & Colors section, select the default font and size from the drop-down menus
Clicking the Advanced... will display a new dialog. To enforce your previous font selection, untick the checkbox Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above
4. To select colours:
Within the Fonts & Colors section, click the Colors... button
The dialog that appears allows you to select a colour palette that best suits you
To enforce your colour selection, untick the checkbox Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above

Disable images in Firefox
1. On OSX: With Firefox in focus, select the Firefox menu, followed by Preferences
2. On other platforms: From the Tools menu, choose Options
3. Select the Content tab
4. Untick the checkbox labelled Load images automatically

Apple Safari

Safari is the browser provided by OSX - to change text size for all the pages you view in Safari:
1. Click on the ' Safari ' menu with the mouse and then then click on ' Preferences ' or press ' Command (Apple) and ë,' (Comma).
2. Click on the ' Appearance ' icon .
3. Click on ' Select ' next to ' Standard font: ' box.
4. This will bring up the ' Fonts ' window click on font size you want under the ' Sizes ' heading .
5. Click on the ' Fonts ' box close button.
6. Click on the ' Appearance ' window close button to return to Safari.
Note: Mac key convention: ' Ctrl ' is used for 'Control', ' Apple ' is used for 'Command' and ' Alt ' is used for the 'Option' key .
Note: keyboard shortcuts for increasing text size in Firefox, Safari and Explorer 7 are :
Windows - ëCtrlí and ë+í
Apple OSX ëCommand (Apple)í and ë +í
And for decreasing in Windows ëCtrlí and ë-ë and using OSX Commandí and ë-ë
Note: Firefox is open source program and as such there are add ons which provide toolbars such as ëAccessibarí which allows the changing of text size, text colour, background colour, link colour, line spacing, hiding graphics and text to speech utilities. Another example is the Hawking toolbar which allows switch access and control. More information on add-ons for Firefox at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Links

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Images

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Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
All areas of this site use only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets the content of each page is still readable.

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