Accessibility
The SCAE website strives to meet the needs of all our members and audiences and to this end the site has been developed to meet the requirements of W3C, Web Accessibility Initiative the international standard for accessibility which reviews the needs of those individuals with disabilities.
Controlling text and colours in your web browser
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. However, if you require even larger text, or use a text-only browser, please refer to the RNIB website:www.rnib.org.uk , which contains useful information on how to access the web using different technologies.
Instructions for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer:
For PC
Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
From the options which appear, select 'Internet options...'
Click on the 'General' tab
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
Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
Select the 'edit' menu at the top of your window
From the options menu which appears, select'preference'
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
Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator prior to version 6
To change the text size:
Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category
Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size' select 18
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
To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'
Click 'OK'
To change the page colors:
Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category
Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links
To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my colours, overriding document' option.
Click 'OK'
Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator version 6 and up
To change the text size:
Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
Open the Appearance group and click the Fonts category
Next to 'Fonts for:' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use.
Next to the 'Proportional' field is a drop down box: select 'Sans-serif'. For the size select 18.
Next to the 'Monospace' field, the box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.
In the 'Minimum font size' box select size 18.
Deselect the 'Allow documents to use other fonts' checkbox so no tick shows by clicking on it.
Click 'OK'
To change the page colors:
Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category
Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links
To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image chosen' option.
Click 'OK'