Accessibility
Guides to adjusting your computer settings to help make reading our site easier.
Guides to adjusting your computer settings to help make reading our site easier.
Text Size
To increase (or decrease) the font size when viewing a web page in Internet Explorer, go to the View menu and select the Text Size option. This will open up a sub menu with a small range of size options for the text.
Quick Tip: If using Internet Explorer 5+ on a PC with a ‘mouse wheel’, holding down the Control key and scrolling the wheel increases and decreases text size.
Font style
Select the ‘Tools’ menu within your Internet Explorer browser
Select ‘Internet Options’ from the Tools menu
Click on the ‘General’ tab
Click on the ‘Fonts…’ button
Change your font using the ‘Web page font’ drop down
Click on the ‘OK’ button on this tab and then on the ‘OK’ button on the Internet Options tab
Font and Background colour
Select the ‘Tools’ menu within your Internet Explorer browser
Select ‘Internet Options’ from the Tools menu
Click on the ‘General’ tab
Click on the ‘Colors…’ button
Check the box next to ‘Use Windows colors’, allowing you access to change the colours yourself
Select your own Text, Background and link colours from those available
Click on the ‘OK’ button on this tab and on the ‘OK’ button on the Internet Options tab