Accessibility

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) gives disabled people important rights of access to everyday services that others take for granted.

To increase the font size on this website:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0:

• Open your browser
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked View
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu - choose text size
• Another drop down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, largest
• Select large or largest

Netscape Navigator 6.2 and 7.0

• Open your Netscape browser
• Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
• If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key

Netscape Navigator 4.6

• Open your Netscape Browser
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window marked Edit
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, select Preferences
• In a box on the left hand side of this window you will find a list of choices.
• At the top of this box you will see the word Appearance and under that fonts and colours.
• Select Fonts In the box will be the text for the encoding and a drop down box. It will read western. Underneath this there will be the text variable width font and a drop down box.
• Select the box and a drop down menu should appear.
• Now choose Arial.
• In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18
• Underneath this there will be the text fixed width font and a drop down box. This should already be set by default to Courier New.
• In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18.
• Underneath these boxes there is the text. Sometimes a document will produce its own fonts. Beneath this there are three choices. The top choice is 'Use my default fonts' overriding document specified fonts. Choose this option by selecting the circle next to this sentence. Now select OK.
• If the text is still not large enough for you then repeat the instruction and when you select Size and make the text larger than 18.

Screen magnification

If you change the settings and find that this does not magnify the text enough to be useful, then it is worth investigating screen magnification software. Screen magnification can magnify up to 16 times. Products vary in price depending on features, such as whether speech support is built into the program.

Changing screen colours

• To over-ride the default colours or colour schemes, if using Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu and choose 'Internet options'.
• When the dialog box appears, click on the 'Colours' button and adjust accordingly by de-selecting the 'Use Windows colours' box.
• Then choose the 'Accessibility' button and tick the box labelled 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'.

Viewing the full screen

• To view the full screen and remove some of the browser's navigation bars, press F11 once.
• Press it again to return the navigation bar Access keys

Shortcut keys

This website makes use of access keys that are intended to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse or who prefer to use keyboard shortcuts.

To activate these shortcuts, hold down the 'alt' key at the same time as the appropriate key below and then press enter:

s - skip navigation

t - top of the page

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2 - news

3 - site map

4 - search

7 - Contact us

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