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Easy viewing : Several ways

  1. For people with poor vision I suggest that the EASIEST way is to make the text larger by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the + key. To reduce it press Ctl and the - key You will find that the setting remains even after you have shut down.  
  2. Or Start, Settings, Control Panel, Accessibility Options and experiment with the Display Settings and High Contrast. The shortcut to turn this on or off is LEFT ALT+LEFT SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN.
  3. You can change the size and style of web page type. In a web page see Tools, Internet Options, Fonts and also View, Text size.  
  4. Internet Explorer 7 also has a zoom option on the bottom right of each website screen.
  5. In addition, Windows XP provides a magnifier which is turned on by going to Start, Run and typing Magnify and clicking OK.
  6. Lastly, you can try setting the screen resolution is set no higher than 800 x 600. Right click a space on the desktop, Properties, Settings and move the slider to the left. Everything will be bigger.

It is suggested the Blind and partially sighted people should get a page reader. You can download one from www.browsealoud.com or a new one called Thunder from www.screenreader.net (XP, NT and Windows 2000 - NOT Vista !) You may find that downloading the WebbIE browser helps these programs. Free from www.webbie.org.uk And, if you use Firefox as your browser take a look at http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/about.html, the developer of Fire Vox, the screen reader for Firefox.
For this reason all graphics on this site have alternative text, if you hover the mouse over a picture.

Other help for people with disabilities who wish to use a computer can be found at www.abilitynet.org.uk/myway

Some of the following 'pages' are very long indeed. If you wish to print a small section of a page just 'select' that section with the mouse, then go to File, Print. When the printer page is displayed make sure you click 'Selection'. Otherwise you may find the 'page' is actually 15!

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