Accessibility Help for Users With Disabilities or Older Technology

Keyboard Shortcuts

Alt + 0 = Accessibility Help Page (Accesskey 0).
Alt + 2 = Skip navigation menu and start reading main page content (Accesskey 2).
Home = Go to the beginning of the current page.
Page Up = Scroll towards the beginning of the current page in screen sized increments.
Page Down = Scroll towards the end of the current page in screen sized increments.
Arrow Up = Scroll towards the beginning of the current page in single line increments.
Arrow Down = Scroll towards the end of the current page in single line increments.
End = Go to the end of the current page.
Tab = Steps forward through all the navigation and links on the current page.
Shift + Tab = Steps backward through all the navigation and links on the current page.
Enter = Activates the currently selected link.
F1 = Opens the relevant help file for the browser.
F3 = Opens a search box (this feature works in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera).
F11 = Toggles the browser window between maximum size and normal view.
Esc = Stops the current page from downloading.
Backspace = Returns to the previous page.

How to Change the Size of Page Text

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6 = Open the 'View' drop-down menu, highlight the 'Text Size' option and select your preferred text size from the menu that opens to the right: Medium, Larger, Largest.
Firefox, Netscape and other Mozilla browsers = On your keyboard, hold down the Ctrl key and then press either; + to increase text size, or - to reduce text size.

General Tips

If you are using a dial-up modem and would like to download pages more quickly, you can switch off images in your browser. This allows your browser to just download text, which is much faster.
- Internet Explorer 5 and 6 = Open the 'Tools' drop-down menu, select 'Internet Options...' then open the 'Advanced' tab. Scroll down to the 'Multimedia' section and un-tick the box next to: 'Show pictures' then activate the 'OK' button to close the 'Tools' window. Images are now turned off and you basically have a text only browser!
- Firefox = Open the 'Tools' drop-down menu, select 'Options' then open the 'Content' tab. Un-tick the box marked: 'Load Images'. Activate the 'OK' button to close the 'Tools' window. Images are now turned off and you basically have a text only browser!
- Netscape = Open the 'Edit' drop-down menu, select 'Preferences...' then open the 'Advanced' tab and select 'Images'. Select the button marked: 'Do not load any images'. Activate the 'OK' button to close the 'Edit' window. Images are now turned off and you basically have a text only browser!
'Windows' has a number of built-in accessibility aids including a 'high-contrast' setting which can be useful for web browsing, it's a bit ugly, but very effective. You can enable this facility as follows:
- Select the 'Control Panel' from the 'Start' menu.
- Select 'Accessibility Options'.
- Select the 'Display' tab.
- Tick the box labeled: 'Use High Contrast' and then active the 'OK' button to close the 'Accessibility Options' window. After a few seconds, your PC will display everything in high contrast. To undo this setting, just go through the steps above and un-tick the 'Use High Contrast' box.

Help Us to Improve Our Website Accessibility

We will continue to test and adapt our website as we learn new techniques which will be of benefit to; users with disabilities, users with older technology and users with alternative technology.

If you have difficulty accessing our website and its content, please let us know precisely what your difficulty is, and we will update our website to accommodate you. Also, please let us know if you have any suggestions or tips to help us improve the general accessibility and usability of our website - Thank You!.

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