Screen Size

You can change the screen size, reducing the number of words per line, by grabbing the grey bar at the bottom right-hand side of the site.


Text size

If you find the text size on this website is too small or too large to read comfortably, you can change the size of the text via your browser. You can also specify the font styles, colours, and foreground and background colours. The way you do this varies from browser to browser.

(Please note - some PCs will allow you to increase text size simply by holding down the 'control' and 'alt' keys and using the wheel in the middle of the mouse to make the text larger and smaller.)


Microsoft Internet Explorer

If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.

Firefox (Mozilla)

If you are using Firefox, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.


Firefox also allows the text size to be changed with keyboard shortcuts:

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size

Netscape Navigator

If you are using Netscape Navigator the text size is altered via keyboard shortcuts:

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size
View the page at Full Screen: F1

Apple Mac

For a computer using a Macintosh operating system

Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and - to decrease the size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size


Linux

For a computer using a Linux operating system

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size


Styles and colours

Internet Explorer users should click on tools, options and then the colours, fonts or accessibility buttons.


PDF files

Many of the PDF documents available on our website have been created using later versions of Adobe Acrobat, either version 6.0 or the newly released 7.0. If you have difficulties opening our documents, this may be because you have an older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your pc.

The latest version, version 7.0, can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.

Adobe can also help you access content using assistive technologies such as screen readers or screen magnifiers. You can link to the Access Adobe website for information on making these documents accessible.