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If you are having a problem viewing our content or any of the information that our products return we have included
this section just for you. Users can adjust settings such as font size and background color to improve visibility around the various areas of our site.
For more information on user accessibility click here to visit the AbilityNet website. There you can find out how to alter the way websites look. For example, the colours may not be to your liking, or the text size a little too small for you to read with comfort. For step by step instructions on how to make web pages easier to read just follow the simple steps below.
Please select one of the following:
Internet Explorer
Netscape Navigator / Mozilla
Opera
Unlike in Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Opera can increase the size of images as well as text. You can quickly increase or decrease the size of both text and graphics using the numberpad + and – keys. Each press will increase or decrease the size by 10%. However, these changes will not be remembered next time you open Opera. Follow these steps to increase or decrease the size of the text permanently:
1.Open the File menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+F.
2.Select the Preferences option with the mouse or by pressing R.
3.Select "Page Style" from the list with the mouse or by using the down arrow key.
4.Select the "Default Zoom" of your choice with the mouse or by pressing Z and using the up and down arrows.
5.Select the OK button with the mouse or by pressing Enter.
The text on our website
should now have changed to reflect your choice.
Some websites have "hard-coded" the size
of their text and as a consequence these websites will
not reflect the change you have just made. If you would
like your preferences to be reflected on other sites
you visit please follow these steps:
1.Open the File menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+F.
2.Select the Preferences option with the mouse or by pressing R.
3.Select "Page Style" from the list with the mouse or by using the down arrow key.
4.Select the "Default Zoom" of your choice with the mouse or by pressing Z and using the up and down arrows.
5.Select the "My fonts and colours" option with the mouse or by pressing Alt+C.
6.Select the OK button with the mouse or by pressing Enter.
you may wish to impose
a different text style than that chosen by us even though
we have chosen a clear non-seriffed font which should
be more easily read by those with a visual impairment
or dyslexia than other font styles (such as, for example,
Times New Roman). Many websites you visit may not have text in a style
you find easy to read. The following steps will also
override the style they have chosen with that of your
preferred choice.
1.Ensure the "My fonts and colours" option
is selected as described in the previous section.
2.Open the File menu with the mouse or by pressing
Alt+F.
3.Select the Preferences option with the mouse or
by pressing R.
4.Select "Fonts and Colours" from the list
with the mouse or by using the down arrow key.
5.Select the type of text you want to redefine (e.g.
"Normal") from the list with the mouse or
by pressing Tab and using the up and down arrow keys.
6.Select the first Choose button with the mouse by
pressing Tab and Enter.
7.Select from the subsequent dialog box the text style
of your choosing with the mouse or by using Tab and
the arrow keys.
8.Select the OK button twice with the mouse or by
pressing Enter twice.
You may wish to impose a different combination of text and background colours than those chosen by us (although we have tried to retain a good contrast at all times. For example, some people with a visual impairment may prefer white text on a black background. Please follow these steps to change the colours on our site:
1.Ensure the "My fonts and colours"
option is selected as described in the
previous section.
2.Open the File menu with the mouse or
by pressing Alt+F.
3.Select the Preferences option with the
mouse or by pressing R.
4.Select "Fonts and Colours"
from the list with the mouse or by using
the down arrow key.
5.Select the type of text you want to
redefine (e.g. "Normal") from
the list with the mouse or by pressing
Tab and using the up and down arrow keys.
6.Select the first Choose button with
the mouse by pressing Tab and Enter.
7.Select from the subsequent dialog box
the text colour of your choosing with
the mouse or by using Tab and the arrow
keys.
8.Select the OK button with the mouse
or by pressing Enter.
9.Select the second Choose button with
the mouse or by pressing Tab and Enter.
10.Select from the subsequent dialog box
the background colour of your choosing
with the mouse or by using Tab and the
arrow keys.
11.Select the OK button twice with the
mouse or by pressing Enter twice.
Many users prefer or need to use the keyboard instead of the mouse.
Select the Help menu and then Keyboard option (or press Alt+B) to bring up a full list of keyboard shortcuts for Opera.
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