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Text Size & Text View

The web site design now includes the facility to view pages with larger fonts, or to view it with a simplified format without images. These are intended to improve the accessibility options for visitors to the web site.

Both these functions require Javascript to be enabled in your web browser. If you do not have a Javascript-enabled browser, then you will only be able to use your browser's built-in facilities to resize text.

Changing the text size

The text size can now be modified by clicking on the letter icons at the top each page, these have the following values:

  • Default text icon Default text size
  • Medium text icon Medium text size
  • Large text icon Large text size

Note that this text resizing works independently of a browser's built-in text resizing, and is optimized to display our pages without problems of text legibility, overflow and wrapping. You can still use the browser resize function, but if exceptionally large or small fonts are used the page readability may be affected.

If you need to resize the text to a very large text size using a browsers built-in resizing, it may be better to switch to text view first to avoid the above issues.

Changing to text view

If you want to view our pages in a simplified format, with minimal page styling and no images, you can use the new 'Text View' link at the top of each page. This toggles the page view between the 'normal' and 'text' views.

Page created: 7 October 2003
Last reviewed: 9 January 2009