Scottish International Relief is committed to ensuring that its site is accessible to all users. This Web site conforms to basic recommendations and standards and has been tested with various technologies. If you encounter a problem accessing our site, or if you would like to provide feedback, please contact the web@sircharity.org

Changing Browser Preferences
You can change text size and colour as well as background colours by making changes in the preferences or options section of your browser. The exact details of how to do this will be different for each type of browser so experimentation may be the order of the day. The following is information relates to Internet Explorer, one of the most popular Web browsers.

Changing preferences in Internet Explorer
Most version of Internet Explorer allow you to change colours, text size and default font via the browser preferences.
First set the browser accessibility options:

1. A the menu bar select Tools > Internet Options.
2. On the dialog box that appears click Accessibility
3. Under formatting you can check the boxes to either:
• Ignore colours specified on the web page
• Ignore font styles specified on the web page
• Ignore font sizes specified on the web page

Preferences you set will now apply to the page you are viewing.

Internet Explorer 5 and above provides a menu for changing text size

To change text size:

• Select View from the menu bar.
• Click on Text Size (Text zoom on Macs).
• Select one of the text sizes from the list that appears.

Changing preferences in other browsers

• New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission has a table showing how to change text size on many different browsers.
• Personalising Your Web Browsing by Imp's Internet Guide .

User style sheets
The presentation of this web site can be changed by turning off the style sheet in the browser preferences, or by substituting your own style sheet. Useful information about using 'user style sheets' to alter the look of web pages can be found at:

• AWARE: User-Defined Style Sheets and Accessibility
• From http://www.howtocreate.co.uk: How to create user style sheets

Windows PC Accessibility Controls
Many Windows PCs can be customised to meet individual access needs, e.g., changes to screen contrast, resolution, magnification options and font choice. For example, with Windows XP Professional choose Start > Control Panel > Accessibility Options.

Keyboard
The following keyboard commands are defaults for Internet Explorer on PC. Other browsers (e.g., Opera), may use different keys for navigating around this web site

• Press the Tab key to move from link to link (or Shift + Tab to move backwards).
• Press the Enter key to activate a link.
• Use Alt + Left Arrow (Apple + Left Arrow for Macs) to go back a page.

Or, to fill out forms:

• Press the Tab key to move from field to field.
• Press Up Arrow or Down Arrow to move between items in a list.
• Press Spacebar to check or uncheck radio buttons and checkboxes.
• Press Enter to activate buttons.

Alt-text Tags
All images on this site are accompanied by a brief alt-text tag that identifies the image or its function.

PDF and Flash plugins
Adobe have an accessibility page where you can download the plugin and learn about the latest accessibility features of the Acrobat reader.
Download the Adobe Reader. Macromedia have information about accessibility and Flash. Download the plugin.
Upgrading to the latest browser supported by your platform is recommended.

Browser downloads

Windows
Internet Explorer for Windows
Opera for Windows
Lynx for Windows
Firefox for Windows

Mac
Internet Explorer for Mac OS X
Apple Safari for Mac OS X
Internet Explorer for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.x
Firefox for Mac Os X
Opera for Mac OS X
Lynx for Mac OS X

Linux
Firefox for Linux
Konqueror for Linux
Opera for Linux

November 2006