Site Accessibility

The current Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requires that goods and services are offered on equal terms to people with disabilities.

How to increase the font size on this website (and most others)

Depending on which web browser you are using, follow the applicable instructions below. The instructions may also work with other versions of the same web browser.

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

• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, largest

• Select large or largest

• The text in your browser window should now appear larger

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

• The text in your browser window should now appear larger

Netscape Navigator 4.6

• Open your Netscape Web 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

• This will open a large window

• 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

• Another window will appear called Fonts and under it will be several boxes

• In the box will be the text For the encoding and a drop down box. In this 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

• The text should now appear larger in the window of your browser

• 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 from around £175 to £600, depending on features, such as whether speech support is built into the program. Some of the more popular products include Lunar, MAGic and Zoomtext

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