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Accessibility

This website aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 1.0 of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure people with disabilities are not excluded from using this website.

How to increase the font size on this website

Internet Explorer 7 and 6

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 of smallest, smaller, medium, larger, largest
Select large or largest

Firefox 3

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 'zoom' and then 'zoom in'

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'.