To make our website easy to view, we have designed it in accordance with guidelines set out by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Browsers

The website can be viewed across a wide range of browsers.

We recommend Firefox 3.5 and above or Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 11 or above to take full advantage of all our website’s facilities.

If you are not sure what browser you are using, click on “Help” on the menu. At the bottom it should say “About Browser Name”. Click this and it will open a small window which will tell you what version you are using. The site is optimised for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768.

Changing browser settings to suit you :-

Internet Explorer

Font size and colour

To ensure that website fonts and colours are optimised for accessibility:

• On the ‘Tools’ menu, click ‘Internet Options’
• On the ‘General’ tab, click ‘Fonts’
• In the ‘Web page font’ and ‘Plain text font’ lists, choose the fonts you would like to use
• Click ‘OK’

Enlarging text

• On the ‘Tools’ menu, click ‘Internet Options’
• On the ‘General’ tab, click ‘Colours’
• Deselect the ‘Use Windows Colours’ tick box
• Select the box next to ‘Text’ and choose a colour
• Click ‘OK’
• Select the box next to ‘Background’ and choose a colour
• Click ‘OK’

To prevent graphics from appearing on web pages:

• Click ‘View’ then ‘Full Screen’ from the toolbar, or press F11

There are other options to tailor web pages that help make them easier to read. These may be found under the ‘Tools’ menu

• Click on the ‘Content’ tab.
• Click ‘Advanced’ in the “Fonts & Colours” section.
• Choose the ‘Variable Width Font’ and ‘Fixed Width Font’ you want to use, make any changes to the size.
• Untick the “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above” checkbox.
• Click ‘OK’ and then ‘OK’

To change the text and background colours:

• Select the ‘Content’ tab
• Click in the box marked ‘Load images automatically’ to remove the tick
• Click ‘OK’

Other Changes

For further assistance in changing your browser settings, there is also a ‘Help’ menu on your browser toolbar. Please refer to this for further information.