Adjusting the text size
To make the text on this website easier to read, you can change its size.

In Internet Explorer, click the View menu, select text size and choose your desired text size setting (e.g. larger, smaller). This can also be achieved using the keyboard. Hold down the "Alt" key and press "V", then without releasing the "Alt" key press "X". Now you can increase or decrease the text size by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press the "Enter" key to select the text size.

In Netscape browsers go to View > Text Size; select a larger or smaller percentage or click on "larger" (or "smaller").

For Mozilla users go to View > Increase Text Size or View > Decrease Text Size. Mozilla/Nescape users can also use keyboard shortcuts. Hold down the "Control" key and press "+" to increase the text size or "-" to decrease the text size.


Changing text and background colours
If you have trouble reading text online, various features on your computer can help you change the colour of the text and background. These can be changed either

• within your internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Mozilla) to change the colours of the internet pages that you view; and/or
• within your computer's operating system (e.g. Windows) to change your overall computer colour scheme

Internet Explorer
In your browser window, go to Tools > Internet Options.

Click on Accessibility and tick Ignore Colours Specified on Web Pages to stop the different colours on webpages from showing.

If you use the internet a lot, you might like to create your own style sheet which uses your preferred colour scheme. To apply this style sheet, click Format Documents Using My Style Sheet and browse to the place where the style sheet is stored on your computer.

Again in your Internet Options box, click on Colours. Click on the various coloured boxes to select a different colour for the text, background, hyperlinks which have not yet been visited ("Unvisited") and hyperlinks which have already been visited ("Visited").

Tick Use Windows Colours if you wish to use the same colour scheme that you have specified in your Windows operating system (instructions on how to change these are below).


Mozilla Firebird
In your browser window, go to Tools > Options.

Click on Fonts & Colours. Under the Text and Background heading, click on the relevant coloured boxes to change the text and background colours.

Under the Link Colours heading, click on the relevant coloured boxes to change the colour of hyperlinks which have not yet been visited ("Unvisited") and hyperlinks which have already been visited ("Visited").

Tick Use System Colours if you wish to use the same colour scheme that you have specified in your Windows operating system.
Changing Windows colours
You can change the colours throughout Windows on your computer (including on the internet) to a high-contrast setting - this changes the text and the background colour at the same time.

Click on your computer's Start menu. Click on Control Panel (sometimes accessed via Settings). Click on Accessibility Options and choose Display. Tick Use High Contrast and then click on Settings, which allows you to choose from a variety of colour schemes.