Controlling text and colours in your web browser
You can specify the font sizes, styles and colors, and foreground and
background colors of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even
if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also
specify the color used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special color
for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link.
This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast
colors. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colors and fonts you
specify, your default Windows colors and fonts, or the settings you specify
in your own style sheet.
If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet,
the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text
and control the colours on your screen.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
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Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser.
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Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
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From the options which appear, select 'Internet options...'.
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Click on the 'General' tab.
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Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'.
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To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font
sizes specified on Web pages'.
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To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked
'Ignore colours specified on web pages'.
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Click OK (and again if necessary).
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Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.
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From the options which appear, select 'Text Size'.
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Select your desired text size.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Mac
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Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser.
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Select the "edit" menu at the top of your window.
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From the options menu which appears, select "preferences".
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Click on "web content".
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Deselect the button marked "show style sheets".
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Return to the list of preferences.
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Click on "web browser".
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Select "language/fonts".
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Select the font size you require.
Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator
Text:
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Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose
'Preferences'.
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Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category.
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Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the
computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size'
select 18.
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Next to the Variable Width Font field is a drop down box: select
'Arial'. The Fixed Width Font box should already read 'Courier
New'. From 'Size' select 18.
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To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select
'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'.
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Click 'OK'.
Colours:
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Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose
'Preferences'.
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Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colours' category.
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Select a color button to change colours of text, background, unvisited
links, or visited links.
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To override the colours used by the designer of the web page, select
'Always use my colours, overriding document'.
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Click 'OK'.
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