Are the colours used on our website too bright?  Is the text too small?  Here's some suggestions for making our website easier to use...

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If you find the text still needs to be bigger, even when set at the largest option, or if you use a text-only browser, we recommend that you go to the RNIB website - CLICK HERE TO VIEW, which may help you find other ways of viewing sites on the internet.

Changing text size on your browser

If you use Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer to view the internet, you can make the text of our website bigger or smaller. The guidelines below, will help you find the right text size for you.

Guidelines for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer

For PC

Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.

Click 'Internet options...'

Click on the tab marked 'General'

Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'

To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'

To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'

Click 'OK' (and again if necessary)

Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.

From the options which appear, select 'Text size'

Select your desired text size

For Apple Mac

Select the "edit" menu at the top of your window

From the options menu which appears, select "preferences"

Click on "web content"

Deselect the button marked "show style sheets"

Return to the list of preferences

Click on "web browser"

Select "language/fonts"

Select the font size you require

Guidelines for users of Mozilla Firefox

Text:

Select 'View' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Text Size'

Next either select Increase or Decrease to change the text size.

Alternatively, you can make the text larger by holding down the 'Ctrl' key and pressing the '+' key or make the text smaller by using holding down the 'Ctrl' key and pressing the '-' key.