St. Michael's Accessibility

Keyboard accesskey information:

The support for accesskeys varies from browser to browser -

Internet Explorer: ALT + (Accesskey as listed above), then Enter.

Mozilla: Shift + ALT + (Accesskey as listed above)

Netscape: ALT + (Accesskey as listed above)

Opera 7.02: SHIFT + ESC+ (Accesskey as listed above)

How to improve the visibility feature for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3.0.8

Internet Explorer 7

To permanently apply font and colour changes:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'

on the 'General' tab, select 'Accessibility'

tick each of the three boxes, click 'OK'

To enlarge the text:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'

on the 'General' tab, click 'Accessibility'

tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box, click 'OK'

on the 'Browser' menu click 'View'

click 'Text size', and choose the size of text

To change the text colour and background colour:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'

on the 'General' tab, click 'Colours'

untick 'Use Windows Colours'

tick box next to 'Text' and choose a colour, click 'OK'

tick box next to 'Background' and choose a colour, click 'OK'

To change the colour of links displayed on a screen:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'

on the 'General' tab, click 'Accessibility'

tick 'Select ignore colours specified on Web pages', click 'OK'

on the 'General' tab, click 'Colours'

untick 'Use hover colours'

tick 'Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK

tick 'Not Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK

To prevent graphics from appearing on web pages:

• go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'

• on the 'Advanced' tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading

• click on the graphics options ('animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images') to remove the ticks

• click on 'Apply', and then click 'OK'

• if graphics still appear, select 'View' then 'Refresh' from the toolbar, or press F5

To change the size of the window:

click 'View' then 'Full Screen' from the toolbar, or press F11

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Firefox 3.0.8

To apply the font and colour changes below permanently:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Options' (Windows) 'Preferences' (Mac)

click Content, look for the Fonts & Colors box

click 'Advanced' next to the font options. Adjust menu options according to your needs

untick 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above', click 'OK'

click 'Colors', untick 'Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above', click 'OK'

To enlarge the text (page zoom):

click 'View'

select 'Zoom' option

click 'Zoom In' or 'Zoom out' option to change the text size, or

To change the text colour:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Options'

click Content

click the 'Advanced...', select your desired fonts and size

untick 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts', click 'OK'

To change the background colour:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Options'

click Content

click 'Colors', select your desired colours.

deselect 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts', click 'OK'

To change the colour of links displayed on a screen:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Options'

click Content

click 'Colors', select your desired colours.

deselect 'Allow pages to choose their own fonts', click 'OK'

To prevent graphics from appearing on web pages:

go to 'Tools' menu, click 'Options'

click Content

untick 'Load images automatically', click 'OK'

If you have any problems changing your browser settings, use the Help menu in your browser toolbar.

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