Accessibility
Browser Accessibility Features
Controlling text and colours in your web browser You can specify the font sizes, styles and colors, and foreground and background colors of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also specify the color used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special color for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link.
This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colors. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colors and fonts you specify, your default Windows colors and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.
Increasing the Font Size - PC
Internet Explorer 6 and 5 choose View from your browser menu then Text Size and choose from Smallest to Largest. Internet Explorer 4 choose View from your browser menu then Fonts and choose from Smallest to Largest. Netscape 6 choose View from your browser menu then Text Size and choose Smaller or Larger or a percentage. Netscape 4.7 choose View from your browser menu then Increase Font. Netscape 4.6 or 4.5 choose Edit from your browser menu then Preferences, then choose Fonts and change the setting accordingly.
Increasing the Font Size - MAC
Internet Explorer 5 choose Edit from your browser menu then Preferences then Web Browser then Language/Fonts and choose the size you want. Internet Explorer 4.5 choose Edit from your browser menu then Preferences then Web Browser then Browser Display and choose from Smallest to Largest Netscape 4.75 - choose Edit from your browser menu then Preferences then Appearances then Fonts and change the font size.
Access Keys
The following access keys are defined for this site.
To use access keys hold down the "alt" key and press the shortcut key.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5 and 6 you also then need to press the "enter" key. Please note that Netscape on the Apple Macintosh does not understand the keyboard short cut commands for linking.
- 1 Home page
- S Skip Navigation
- 2 The Team
- 3 Sitemap
- 4 Partnerships
- 5 Health and Social Care
- 6 Social Enterprise
- 7 Standards
- 8 Social Enterprise Solutions
- 9 Contact Us
- L Links
- E Grants and Support Services
- G News and Events
- C Case Studies
File Formats
Some items provided on the web site require additional services to be downloaded.
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Please note that Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service.
To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed: click the link below to download the software
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The site also publishes documents in Microsoft Word 2000 format.
To view and print Microsoft Word files, you must either have Word installed on your PC or you can download Microsoft Word Viewer software
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Site Translation
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