Settings
1. PC - Internet Explorer versions 4 and 5
Changing text and background colours
Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser, and select ‘Internet
options’. A new window will then pop up. Click on the
‘Accessibility’ button at the bottom right.
In Explorer 4, you need to click on the ‘View’ menu at the top of
your browser. Select ‘Internet options’ from the Control Panel that
appears, and then click on the ‘Accessibility’ button.
Under ‘Formatting’ you can choose from the following options.
Ignore colors specified on web
pages
Ignore font styles specified on
web page
Ignore font sizes specified on
web pages
Put a tick in all the boxes required, and click ‘OK’. Putting a
tick in the ‘Ignore font sizes’ box will make web page text bigger
automatically.
Click the ‘Colors’ button in the first window. Then remove the
tick from the box marked ‘Use Windows colors’. Now you can select
colours for text, background, visited links and unvisited links that
are easiest for you to see. Click ‘OK’ when you have selected
colours for each.
Then go to ‘Fonts’ in the first window and choose a font that is
easy for you to read. Click ‘OK’.
You will then return to the ‘Internet options’ window. (In some
Version 4 browsers this may be called ‘Internet properties’.) Click
‘OK’ to set your changes as default.
Changing the text size
Click on the ‘View’ menu at the top of your browser, and go to
‘Text size’. (In Explorer 4, this is called ‘Font’.) Select a larger
text size for web pages to display.
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2. PC - Netscape
Navigator version 4
Changing text colours,
background colours, and the font
Click on ‘Edit’ at the top of your browser and select
‘Preferences’. Under ‘Appearance’ in the left-hand menu are two
options: ‘Fonts’ and ‘Colors’.
Fonts
Select a font that is easy to read. To set a font as default,
click on the button marked ‘Use my default fonts, overriding
document specified fonts’.
Colors
By clicking on this option, you can select colours that are
easiest for you to read. You can change the colour of the
background, text, and links (visited and unvisited).
To set your colours as default, click on the button marked
‘Always use my colours, overriding document’.
Changing the text size
Click on the ‘View’ menu at the top of your browser. In the menu
that appears, there are options to ‘Increase font’ and ‘Decrease
font’.
By pressing the keys ‘Control’ and right square bracket - ‘]’ you
increase the font size on web pages. By pressing the keys ‘Control’
and left square bracket -‘[’ you decrease the font size.
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3. Macintosh - Microsoft
Internet Explorer versions 4 and 5
Changing page and text colours
Click ‘Edit’ on the Macintosh toolbar at the top of the screen.
Select ‘Preferences’ from the menu. In the left-hand list that
appears, click ‘Web content’.
There are buttons to change the colours of text, background, read
links and unread links.
Click on the ‘Text’ button, and use the colour wheel to choose a
colour that you can read most easily. Click ‘OK’.
Then, click on the ‘Background’ button and use the colour wheel
to choose a background colour. Click ‘OK’.
Do the same for the read links and unread links buttons, and
click ‘OK’.
Changing the font
From the left-hand list in ‘Preferences’, choose ‘Web browser’.
Click ‘Language/fonts’ in the menu.
There is a button marked ‘Proportional (default)’. Click this
button to choose a font that is easy to read.
Setting your colours and fonts
as default
From the left-hand list in ‘Preferences’, choose ‘Web content’.
There are two boxes marked ‘Allow page to specify colours’ and
‘Allow page to specify fonts’. If there are crosses in these boxes
(or ticks, in Internet Explorer version 5), remove them by clicking
on them.
Then click ‘OK’. This will set your changes as default.
Changing the text size
Click on the ‘View’ menu at the top of your browser, and go to
‘Text size’. (In Explorer 4, this is called ‘Font’.) Select a text
size for web pages to display.
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4. Macintosh - Netscape
Navigator version 4 browsers.
Changing fonts and colours
Click ‘Edit’ on the Macintosh toolbar at the top of the screen,
and select ‘Preferences’. Under ‘Appearance’ in the left hand menu
are two options: ‘Fonts’ and ‘Colors’.
Fonts
Click on ‘Fonts’. There are
buttons marked ‘Variable width font’ and ‘Fixed width font’. Choose
one font and a size that’s easy to read, and click. Ignore the
button marked ‘For the encoding’.
To set your choice as default, click the button marked ‘Use my
fonts, overriding page-specified fonts’.
Colors
Click on ‘Colors’. There are
buttons to change the colours of text, background, visited links and
unvisited links.
Click on the ‘Text’ button and use the colour wheel to choose a
colour that you can read easily. Click ‘OK’.
Then click on the ‘Background’ button and use the colour wheel to
choose a background colour. Click ‘OK’.
Do the same for the visited and unvisited links buttons, and
click ‘OK’.
To set your choices as default, click the button marked ‘Always
use my colors, overriding page-specified colours’. Then click ‘OK’
to finish.
Changing the text size
Click on the ‘View’ menu at the top of your browser. In the menu
that appears, there are options to ‘Increase font’ and ‘Decrease
font’.
By pressing the keys ‘Control’ and right square bracket - ‘]’ you
increase the font size on web pages. By pressing ‘Control’ and left
square bracket - ‘[’ you decrease the font size.
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