HELP VIEWING OUR WEBSITE

If the text in our website is too small to read, or you have any difficulty viewing the content, here are some instruction for controlling text size and colours in your web browser.

If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers, the following step-by-step guide will help you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen when looking at the internet. However, if you require even larger text, or use a text-only browser, please refer to the RNIB website: www.rnib.org.uk , which contains useful information on how to access the web using different technologies.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USERS OF MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER:

For PC

Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
From the options which appear, select 'Internet options...'
Click on the 'General' tab
Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'
To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'
Click 'OK' (and again if necessary)
Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Text size'
Select your desired text size

For Apple Mac

Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
Select the 'edit' menu at the top of your window
From the options menu which appears, select 'preference'
Click on 'web content'
Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'
Return to the list of preferences
Click on 'web browser'
Select 'language/fonts'
Select the font size you require

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USERS OF NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR PRIOR TO VERSION 6

To change the text size:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'.
Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category.
Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size' select 18.
Next to the ‘Variable Width Font field’ is a drop down box: select 'Arial'.
The ‘Fixed Width Font’ box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.
To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'.
Click 'OK'.
To change the page colors:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'.
Open the ‘Appearance’ group and click the 'Colours' category.
Select a colour button to change colours of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links.
To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my colours, overriding document' option.
Click 'OK'.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USERS OF NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR VERSION 6 AND UP

To change the text size:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'.
Open the Appearance group and click the ‘Fonts’ category.
Next to 'Fonts for:' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use.
Next to the 'Proportional' field is a drop down box: select 'Sans-serif'. For the size select 18.
Next to the 'Monospace' field, the box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.
In the 'Minimum font size' box select size 18.
Deselect the 'Allow documents to use other fonts' checkbox so no tick shows by clicking on it.
Click 'OK'.
To change the page colours:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
Open the ‘Appearance’ group and click the 'Colours' category
Select a colour button to change colours of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links
To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my chosen colours, ignoring the colours and background image chosen' option.
Click 'OK'.