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Accessibility

Don't skip this box!

If you have no difficulty accessing the content of this site feel free to skip this page but remember:

The Access bar is where you can change things. It's near the top of the page and looks like this:

Access bar

You can get back here by clicking the Accessibility Logo Access Logo in the Accessibility Bar above.

If you do need improved access you may find it helpful to print this page.

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This site has been designed to let you:

- swap between normal and high contrasts
- increase or decrease the font sizes of the main text
- listen to the pages if you first set up Adobe Reader.
- use Access Keys if you find the keyboard easier than a mouse.

Just one thing: if you refused to let active scripts run when you first opened this site you will still be able to navigate the site OK but the Accessibility Bar won't work!

 


General Compatibility

The pages have been designed to be World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant so that most web-browsers will know exactly how to present the content. (Only about 1 in 10,000 websites are W3C compliant!)

W3C_html    TidyLogo    W3C_CSSLogo   

Access Keys

Using access keys lets you navigate from the keyboard instead of using a mouse.Whether this works depends upon how your computer is set up and the version and type of web-page browser that you are using. Here are instructions for the latest and most popular Windows web-page browsers.

IE7 Logo Internet Explorer 7

Whilst holding down the Alt key press the access Key (e.g. h). You must then release these keys and press the enter key to bring about the page changes.

Alt Key   +   Access Key     THEN     enter key

Firefox Logo Firefox 2

Whilst holding down both the Alt and Shift key press the access key (e.g. 1). You do not need the enter key.

Alt Key   +   Shift Key   +   Access Key

Firefox logo   IE7 Logo        Access Keys

Accessibility page

a

Normal contrast

n

High contrast

h

Smaller font

s

Bigger font

b

Home page

1

Consultants

2

Links

3

Contact us

4

PDF file

5

Why not check now if these work on your computer?

 

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Firefox logo   IE7 Logo     Contrast Settings

Contrasts between text and background for the default colour scheme have been chosen to meet W3C recommendations.

If you still struggle to read the pages then near the top of each page you can choose to swap between high contrast or normal settings.

contrast bar

or

contrast bar Normal High Contrast Normal High Contrast

Just click on the setting that you prefer.

Click here to go to the top of the page to try any of these.

We have checked the high-contrast pages using Vischeck for the common forms of colour-blindness and they seem satisfactorily to address Deuteranopy, Protanopy and Tritanopy.

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"" Change contrast in Firefox

In Firefox (but not in Internet Explorer) you can choose the default or high contrast settings even if your computer will not run active scripts.

Go to View / Page style and choose the style.

Firefox page style menu

 

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Firefox logo   IE7 Logo  Font Size

Near the top of each page are two small buttons with which you can click repeatedly to resize the main text.

This is the best way to change font size as - unlike the browser based methods that follow - it changes the main text but leaves the rest of the web-page intact.

Font changer

To quickly return to the original font size click your browser's page refresh button or press F5.

To go to the top of the page and try this click here.

Other methods

If you are running a modern version of your web-browser you may be able to change the text size with Ctrl+ and Ctrl- .

Ctrl+ graphic Smaller font Bigger font

 

Hold down the Ctrl key and press + to enlarge it.

Hold down the Ctrl key and press - to reduce it.

In Firefox and Internet Explorer you can usually press control and use the mouse scroll button to magnify or reduce what is on-screen.

ctrl + mouse

See below if the above methods don't work.

Firefox Font Size in Firefox

Firefox Change Font size

In Firefox you can change the font size by clicking

View / Text size / Increase or decrease

IE7 Font Size - Internet Explorer

IE7 Change Font size

In Internet Explorer you should still be able to change font size from the view menu.

View / Text size /Smallest, Smaller, Medium, Larger, Largest.

 

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""Text to Speech

Text to Speech software is well developed but using it to read web-pages can still be problematic.

Pages on this site also exist as Adobe (Pdf) files. Adobe Reader Versions 7 and 8 have excellent built-in text to speech capability and we recommend that you use this method for text to speech conversion.

Setting up Adobe Reader

To listen to the page content you will first have to get pdf Files to display in Adobe reader rather than within the web browser.

In Adobe Reader 7 you use Edit / Preferences / Internet / web browser options to untick the Display PDF in Browser . (You can reverse this by re-ticking the box.)

Acrobat preferences

 

In Adobe Reader 8 you can also quickly do this under Edit /Preferences / Internet / Web Browser options

Alternatively you can use the Accessibility set-up assistant Document / Adobe Setup Assistant.

Acrobat setup

Use the next button to scroll through the pages until you come to Display Pdf documents in web browser and uncheck this box. This means that Pdf files will load in Adobe Reader rather than within your web-browser.

 

Reading a page

First load the Pdf file by clicking on the print button that exists on our web-pages or by using Access Key 5 (See above). It should load into Adobe Reader.

print button

Now click View / Read out loud /activate the reader (or press Shift + Ctrl + Y. )

Finally click View / Read out loud / Read to end of document ( or press Shift + Ctrl + B) to listen to the page content.

PDF Text 2 Speech

Reading Direct from the web-page

Windows Vista has an assistive technology tool called "Narrator. There are also other similar "readers" available to purchase.

In case you choose to read web pages directly with one of these we have

Minimised the use of text graphics.

Included alternate text descriptions for graphics and tables.

Used cascading style sheet positioning rather than tables.

Identified the language - English - in a way that to informs text to speech engines.

That said - we cannot promise that readers will function in a problem free fashion and still recommend using the Adobe pdf files!

 

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