Making Text Larger
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari

Internet Explorer
From your browser menu bar select View
Select Text Size
Select the size you would like

Internet Explorer 7 users can additionally select Ctrl + to increase and Ctrl - to decrease the text size.

Some of our pages have fixed font sizes. To ignore our sizes completely please do the following:
From your browser menu bar select Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility
Select Ignore font sizes specified on web pages
Select OK

Firefox
From your browser menu bar select View
Select Text Size
Select the size you would like

Alternatively, selecting Ctrl + increases the text size, Ctrl - decreases the text size and Ctrl 0 returns you to the default text size.

Safari
From your browser menu bar select View
In the drop-down menu select either Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller


To increase the font sizes on every page that you visit:
From your browser menu bar select Safari
In the drop-down menu select Preferences
Click the Appearance icon
Next to Standard Font click Select
Select the font size you would like


Magnifying the Screen
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari

Internet Explorer
From your browser menu bar select Tools
Select Internet Options
Click Accessibility
Enter a tick in the Ignore Colours Specified on Webpages check box
Click OK
The website is now using the colour scheme set up on your computer. If you are happy with this, select OK
If you still wish to change the colours, click Colours
To remove the default Windows colours, remove the tick from the Use Windows Colours check box
Change the colours by selecting Text or Background or Visited or Unvisited then clicking on your preferred colour
When you have selected the colour scheme you require, click OK to return to the Internet Options box
Click OK to return to Internet Explorer

Firefox
From your browser menu bar select Tools
Select Options
Click the Content tab
Click on Colours…
To use your Windows colour scheme colours, ensure there is a tick in Use System Colours. Make sure there is no tick in the Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above checkbox
Click OK to return to the Options dialogue box
Click OK to return to Firefox

Safari
At present Safari does not have any options to change text and background colours.


Hearing Your Computer
Windows
MAC

Windows
Please note that Windows Narrator is only available for Windows 2000 and XP.
Windows Narrator will not narrate a web page.
Click Start in the bottom left corner of your screen
Click on All Progams
Click on Accessories
Click on Accessibility
Click on Narrator – it will immediately start reading out instructions on how to use this feature.
Click OK
Select your required settings by placing ticks in the appropriate boxes
If you wish to adjust the voice settings click Voice
Amend voice settings and click OK

Mac
To activate Mac Speech click on the Apple menu
Click on the Control Panels sub-menu
Click Speech
In the Speech control panel click the pop-up menu next to Voice, then select your chosen voice
To play a sample of this voice click the speaker button next to the voice name
The Rate slider can be moved to speed up or slow down the voice
Click the Options drop-down menu
Select Talking Alerts
To enable your computer to speak text in dialogue boxes, place a tick in the Speak the alert text check box
Set the Wait before speaking slider to your chosen delay time before the computer speaks
Close the box to save your settings