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Accessibility using Netscape

Changing the text size
Changing the font and font size
Changing the text and background colour
Turn off images
Clear history
Tabbed browsing

Changing the text size

  1. Opening the tools menu and select options
  2. In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
  3. Click on the fonts & colours button
  4. in the fonts & colours box, set the minimum font size to none

There are 3 ways in which to adjust the size of the text:

  1. Opening the view menu and selecting to increase or decrease the text size
  2. Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
  3. Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size

Changing the font and font size

  1. Open the tools menu and select options
  2. In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
  3. Click on the fonts & colours button
  4. In the fonts & colours box, tick the box that says always use my font
  5. Select your font and size

Changing the text and background colour

  1. Open the tools menu and select options
  2. In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
  3. Click on the fonts & colours button
  4. In the fonts & colours box, un-tick the box that says use system colours
  5. Tick the box that says always use my colours
  6. Select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes
  7. Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.

Turn off images

To turn off images you need to open the security centre. There are 2 ways of doing this:

  1. Click on the security centre button that's in the top right hand corner of the browser
  2. Open the tools menu and select security centre, a security menu will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the browser
  3. Select the current site-rating tab and click on the small blue arrow next to your trust setting
  4. A new box will appear, click on the advanced tab
  5. Un-tick the box that says allow images to be displayed

Clear history

  1. Open the tools menu and select options
  2. In the options box, choose the privacy tab, which is underneath security and privacy
  3. Under page history you can choose the number of days you wish your history to be kept for or you can tick the clear page history on browser exit box

Tabbed browsing

You can have several Treasury web pages open at the same time in just the one-browser window.

  1. Right click on the link you would like to open a new tab with
  2. Select Open in new tab - this lets you view the new page in the new tab straight away.

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