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Web Accessability

BROWSEALOUD - Speech Enablement

DisabledGo - access to locations in the Arun District

Changing text size (and webpage colours) :

Adjusting the text size (and screen colours) on all websites

Most web browsers allow you to quickly and easily change the size of text, and also adjust the colours, on your screen.

If you adjust your web browser in this way to suit your needs then when you leave our website and go to another website you will retain those changes and other websites will also use your preferred settings. For this reason we haven't included special buttons or tools on our website. Instead we have built our website in such a way to allow you to customise how it appears on screen by setting your web browser to your own personal requirements which should make our website, and also your whole web experience, much more accessible to you.

The BBC's 'My Web My Way' website gives very easy to follow step by step instructions on how to adjust your browser (and computer) to suit your own particular needs as does the RNIB site.

You can see a short movie (2 minutes 42 seconds) by Accessify on the You Tube website about how to change the text size settings in your browser

If you do want to quickly change the text size on our website then the following instructions should help you do so :

Internet Explorer :

Click on the 'View' pull down menu
Select 'Text Size'
Select the size you want from 'Smallest' to 'Largest' - 'Medium' is the default setting and the one best suited to our website
Alternatively you can hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard and roll the wheel scroller on your mouse to change the font size to make it larger or smaller

BROUSEALOUD

As part of our efforts to make our website accessible to all we are pleased to announce that our web site is speech-enabled with free to download software. This latest improvement will assist those with reading difficulties, literacy problems, mild vision difficulties and where English is not their first language.

The site can be speech enabled on demand using the free Browsealoud software which is available for Windows PCs using Netscape or Internet Explorer browsers.

Click the Browsealoud button below to reach the download site and follow the prompts to download and install the program. Download and installation of browsealoud will take around 10-15 minutes on a standard modem.

When browsealoud is installed you will see a blue concentric circles icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen to tell you that browsealoud is loaded and ready on your computer.

To switch off Browsealoud right mouse click on the same circles at the bottom right of your screen and switch off the "automatically speak text when pointer hovers over text" option.

When you roll your mouse over some text within the website the words will be instantly turned into speech.

More information can be found at www.browsealoud.com

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This page was last updated on 30/04/10 at 17:43:10
Office Use Only: 2650/04-11-10/Maureen Chaffe