Choose your settings

Making your text bigger

To permanently enlarge the text in your internet browser follow the instructions for your browser type and version below.

If you have problems changing your settings, use the Help menu in your browser toolbar.

Internet Explorer (IE5.x) instructions:

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
• Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
• Click 'OK'
• Come out of that and return to the browser
• Then on the browser menu select 'View'
• Click 'Text size'
• Choose the size of text

Netscape Navigator/Communicator (V5.x) instructions:

• Click on 'Edit' and select 'Preferences'
• Select 'Appearance' and click on 'Font'
• Choose the 'Variable Width Font' and 'Fixed Width Font' that you want
• Click 'OK' to set these fonts for all future use, click 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'

Taking time over design

We are always looking for ways to improve our website and make it easier to use. Our guidelines include:

• Designing the site for a 800x600 view so horizontal scrolling is not required
• Using meaningful ALT text for all images to provide descriptive text
• Using descriptive hyperlink text
• Avoiding the use of frames, which are difficult for special browsers to interpret
• Using an easy-to-see web colour scheme
• Using an easier to read non-serif font type, size and colour.

Use your own choice of colours and font style

Choosing this option will enable you to over-ride the standard colours of the site by using the internet options or preferences facility on your browser. So if you want to have a another colour background with another colour text for example or any other combinations of font style then use this option. Depending on which browser you use, you may also be able change the font size from here, normally by selecting Font size from the View menu but we will explaining further on how to change font size.

The Internet options section of a browser can be found as follows:

• If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu, select Internet options then select from a range of colours, fonts, languages and accessibility. Don’t forget that selecting this option will change the settings for other websites too.  
• If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the View menu and choose preferences. From there, you can select from a list of options.  
• On AOL- on the browser toolbar select My AOL, then Preferences and finally, click on the ‘www’ or internet properties button from where you should be able to access internet options.  is committed to providing a site accessible to everyone.

Images

All images used on this website have suitable alt attributes (or empty alt attributes for purely decorative items).

Browsers

We aim to support the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 5.5+
Safari (Mac)
Camino (Mac)
Mozilla Firefox 2
Netscape 8
Opera 8

Scripts

JavaScript is kept to a minimum on this site, and no content section should be unusable if JavaScript is not enabled or not supported in your web browser.