Accessibility and Help
Accessibility and General Usage
Making the website easier to read
Sometimes you can struggle to read and see what a website is saying because the type is too small. Don't struggle unnecessarily. To change the size of text depends on the web browser you use. Here are the instructions for the most popular web browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6 (Windows)
- Go to the View menu
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that pops out, select from Smaller, Small, Medium, Large and Larger .
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)
With the Mouse
- Select Page from the toolbar below where web addresses are entered. (It is located on the right in between Print and Tools)
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that pops out, select from Smaller, Small, Medium, Large and Larger .
You can also use the zoom control located at the bottom right hand side of the Internet Explorer window.
With the Keyboard
- Hold down Ctrl (Control) and press either:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
Firefox
With the Mouse
- Go to the View menu
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that appears select either: Increase, Decrease or Normal .
With the Keyboard
- Hold down Ctrl (Control) and press either:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
- 0 : to reset the page size to default
Opera
With the Mouse
- Go to the View menu
- Click on Zoom
- Select from the sub menu the page zoom you require, with 100% being the default page size.
With the Keyboard
Using the numeric keypad with ‘Number Lock' on, use:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
- * : to reset the page size to the default
Safari
- Go to the View menu
- Select Increase Text Size to enlarge the page
- Select Decrease Text Size to shrink the page
You can also use Ctrl + F2 to access the Apple menus with your keyboard, and use the cursor keys to move around the menu structure, and select your chosen option by pressing return .
Printing pages
We live in an electronic world but we all sometimes want a hard copy of what we have read. That's why this website allows you to print a page in beautiful quality without needing to fiddle with selecting text or finding the ‘printer friendly' option. Just click print and the page will be printed in full without all the unnecessary information you don't need.
Try it now and be relieved at the stress free way to paper.
- Note: This applies to most modern web browsers. Some older browsers such as Internet Explorer 3 may require you to select the required text.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
We all read some letters such as HTML and wonder what they might mean, or possibly what an abbreviation means. To help you make sense of these, look out for text with a dotted underline. Move your mouse over one of these and you will see in most web browsers a little ‘tip' pop up explaining the definition for you. Some web browsers make this even more obvious as the mouse pointer changes to a ‘ ? '.
Adobe PDF File
A number of files on this site are presented as '.pdf' files, these are Adobe Portable Document Format files. You can read these on virtually any computer system with the correct software. Mac OS X and most Linux distributions already have a PDF reader installed. If you are using Windows or wish to view PDFs on any other computer, you can download Adobe Reader for free.
Site Map
Some people find it easier to navigate our website using the Site Map. The Site Map gives a text representation of all the pages on this website which you can easily navigate using the tab key. The following key sequences can be used in all modern web browsers to navigate the Site Map.
- Tab: Move down to the next link
- Shift + Tab: Move up to the previous link
- Enter/Return: View selected page
View the Site Map.