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Font Type and Size
For improved visibility you may be able to increase (or decrease) the size of text and alter the choice of font within your own web browser.
Internet Explorer users
- To alter the font size:
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- Navigate to View within the brower menu.
- Choose Text size.
- Select the appropriate font size, for example Larger.
- To alter the font type:
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- Navigate to Tools within the brower menu.
- Open your Internet Options window.
- Under History choose Fonts and select your preferred font.
- Within Internet Options choose Accessibility. You then need to select Ignore font styles specified on web pages.
- Select OK.
This process will ensure that the page you are viewing now appears with your chosen specifications.
Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox users
- To alter the font size:
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- Navigate to View within the brower menu.
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- For Netscape 6: choose Increase Font as many times as you find is necessary for the size that you want.
- For Netscape 7: choose Text Zoom and select your preferred percentage of zoom.
- For Mozilla/Firefox: choose Text Size and Increase.
- To alter the font type in Netscape:
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- Navigate to Edit within the brower menu.
- Select Preferences, Appearance, Fonts.
- Choose Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts.
- To alter the font type in Firefox/Mozilla:
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- Navigate to Tools within the brower menu.
- Select Options, General, Fonts & Colors.
- Select Always use my: Fonts.
These changes will ensure that that any set fonts within this web site are ignored by your browser.
Colour of Text and Background
You may require specific colours in order to be able to view the site easily.
Internet Explorer users
- Navigate to Tools within the brower menu.
- Open your Internet Options window.
- Under History choose Colors. You can change text and background page colour as well as the colour in which links appear, then click OK.
- Within Internet Options choose Accessibility and select Ignore colors specified on Web pages.
- When you select OK, this should ensure that the page you are viewing now appears with your specifications.
Netscape users
- Navigate to Edit within the brower menu.
- Select Preferences, Appearance. Navigate to Preferences, Colors.
- Choose Always use my colors, overriding document, then specify your colours.
Mozilla/Firefox users
- Navigate to Tools within the brower menu.
- Select Options, General, Fonts & Colors.
- Select Always use my: Colors.
Accessibility Resources
The following links explain the many ways you can make the web more accessible to you.