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Changing your Browser settings

Internet Explorer

You can specify the font size, style, colour, and foreground and background colours of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also specify the colour used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special colour for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link.

This is useful if you have poor vision, need a larger font, or request high-contrast colours. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own stylesheet.

To change the browser settings in Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6:

  • Select the View menu.
  • Select Text Size.
  • Click on the text size you want to use.

For more control over browser settings in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6:

  • Select the Tools menu.
  • Select Internet Options.
  • Internet Options allows you to change fonts and background colours and use your own stylesheet to further customise the browser to your accessibility needs.

Firefox

You can specify which fonts and font sizes are used to display web pages in your browser:

  1. Open the View menu .
  2. Select Text Size.
  3. Click on the text size you want to use.

For more control over browser settings:

  1. Open the Tools menu.
  2. Select Options.
  3. Firefox allows you to change fonts, sizes and text link colours to further customise the browser to your accessibility needs.

Useful Links

UK Government Disability Site (opens in a new window) - Contains full information about the Disability Discrimination Act, parts of which apply to the Web as from 1st October 1999.

RNIB (opens in a new window) - The RNIB is there to help not only totally blind people, but also the one and a half million in the UK with serious sight problems.

NLB (opens in a new window) - The National Library for the Blind has a collection of over 350,000 volumes in Braille and Moon, including children's books and Braille music.