Accessibility Features - Text Size
The pages on our websites are also designed to use php and CSS styles to control layout and colour. Text sizes can also be quickly changed by using this function which is supplied as standard in all of our designs.
- We do not use absolute text sizes in pixels or points (even though we acknowledge that there is a strong argument that these are actually relational to screen resolution and so accessible) so our texts remain fully adjustable
- A small number of third-party suppliers unfortunately, use inline styling. We are working closely where this happens to rectify this
- We do not use absolute or inline styling (as bold, italic etc) - instead our clients are able to easily use our accessible style sheets we have designed for them in a “one-click” formatting system.
Beyond our style sheets, the easiest way to adjust the size of all the fonts is by by choosing:
- view> text size> largest (Internet Explorer)
- view > text size> increase (Mozilla Firefox)
- view>zoom> 200% (Opera)
- view> text zoom> 200% (Netscape)
- view> make text bigger (Safari)
- Preferences>WWW>Advanced Settings>Browser Display option> larger (AOL)
If pages on our websites display as a long list of text without colour or layout it almost certainly means that you are using an older browser that cannot support style sheets (CSS). Please update your browser to take advantages of internet accessibility. Updating your browser is free and normally takes less than 2 minutes. Older browsers often compromise accessible content and your own computer security.
The advantage of using CSS styles is that it lets you have complete control over the lay-out as it uses special code (CSS) that can be overridden by your internet browser. This means you can control how the you would like the pages are displayed.
Our websites usually offer up to 3 pre-formatted styles of display which can usually be found on every page with the navigation.
