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Access Options

This website was developed by Anblik as a source of accessibility help for all computer users. This web site is designed to be aesthetically pleasing, useful, and most of all accessible to the widest audience possible. To achieve these goals, this website was developed to follow the Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. You are able to customise this Web site to suit your requirements. It includes information on changing not only the colours and text size and style of our website, but will explain how these changes can be made to affect every site you visit if you wish. You can do this in a number of ways:

Change the Text Size
Change the Colour Scheme
Listen to Text
Clear Navigation Mechanisms
Browse using your Keyboard

Change the Text Size

This Web site maintains a relative text size - small. You can adjust the text size of this site to suit your requirements by selecting Foreground, Background and Text-Size combinations from the Personalize Drop-Down Menu available in the top right corner of every pages. You can also ask your Web browser to display text using a larger or smaller typeface.

In Internet Explorer: Click on View > Text Size and choose a size.
In Firefox, Netscape: Click on View > Text Size and increase/decrease size.
(Macintosh shortcut <Command>+ / Windows shortcut <Ctrl>++)
In Opera: Click on View > Zoom and increase/decrease size percent.
(Macintosh shortcut <Command>+ / Windows shortcut + or 0).
In Safari: Click on View > Make Text Bigger / Make Text Smaller.
(Macintosh shortcut <Command>+).

You can also ask your browser to consistently display text using a larger or smaller typeface.

For example in Internet Explorer:
1. Menu items: Tools > Internet Options
2. In Internet Options dialog box: Accessibility button (bottom right)
3. In Accessibility dialog box:
  1. Ignore colors specified on Web pages
  2. Ignore font styles specified on Web pages
  3. Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages

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Change the Colour Scheme

You can set your Web browser to ignore the colors used in this web site. You can ask your browser to use your own preferred colour scheme when viewing this site.

In Internet Explorer: Click on Tools > Internet Options > Colors.
In Firefox, Netscape: Click on Tools > Options > General > Font & Colors.
In Opera: Click on Tools > Preferences.
In Netscape Navigator: Click on Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Colors.

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Listen to Text

There are a number of text to speech programs that are either freeware or shareware that allow any text that can be selected with the keyboard or mouse to be spoken back in a range of different voices. This website is enabled with a choice of text-to-speech options.

Narrator is a text-to-speech utility for people who are blind or have low vision. Narrator reads what is displayed on the screen, the contents of the active window, menu options, or text that has been typed. This procedure tells you how to turn on and use Narrator. Narrator is designed to work with Notepad, WordPad, Control Panel programs, Internet Explorer, the Windows desktop, and some parts of Windows Setup. Press <Windows>+u.
ReadSpeaker provide automatic speech enabling of web content. Make your website talk, to make the text more accessible. ReadSpeaker PodCaster is a service that takes a news feed and automatically converts it to speech.
ReadPlease reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software. Developer of award-winning text-to-speech software for Windows based operating systems.
BrowseAloud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. To use Browsealoud you need to download and install the software, when it is running simply move the mouse over some text on a web page and it is read out, no clicking or selecting of text is required.

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This website provides logical and consistent navigation. We have identified the target of all links and provides information about document collections. The logical grouping of all pages provides links to the Home, Next, Previous and Top pages in the set that are computer understandable in addition to navigation hyperlinks that appears on top of every pages for human beings.

These links are provided as meta-data using the rel and rev attributes of the link tag that appears in the head of a document. This technique has been applied to all of the pages, include Administration pages making that subsite behave much like a book in some browsers such as Mozilla. The option is usually called Site navigation bar and is found under the view menu. At present Mozilla 1.1+ and Opera 7.0+ are the only browsers known to support this feature.

The following Navigation Icons along with its Keyboard Access Keys are defined on this site:

: ALT + 2 Skip to Content
: ALT + 1 Go to Home Page
: ALT + L Go to Previous Page
: ALT + R Go to Next Page
: ALT + U Go to Upper Section Page
: ALT + 0 Go to Access Options Page
: ALT + 3 Go to Site Map (TOC) Page
: ALT + 6 Print this Page
: ALT + 7 Email this Page
: ALT + M Mobile Preview

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Browse using your Keyboard: Access keys

Acccess keys allow you to navigate this website with keyboard rather then the mouse. Access keys are a navigation device enabling you to get around the web site using your keyboard. They can be used to jump to different sections of content within a web page. More in depth information about access keys can be found at W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

The following Access Keys are defined on this site: