Accessibility
We want everyone who visits our website to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding. We look to ensure that our website work with popular browsers on various platforms, from desktop computers to smartphones.
If you have any questions or suggestions about the accessibility of our website, or come across any inconsistencies, please contact us.
Accessibility tools
Below are a few tips to help you better access our websites. For a more complete guide to making your computer accessible on the web, we recommend visiting the AbilityNet My Computer My Way website.
Making pages easier to read in your browser
Web pages can be difficult to view when the text is too small. Below is a list of web browsers that are supported on our sites, with instructions on how to increase the size of the text on any web page you are viewing.
| Supported browser | Increase text size using your mouse | Increase text size using your keyboard |
| Internet Explorer | View > Text Size | + or – to increase or decrease text size |
| Chrome | Menu > Zoom | Control key > + or – to increase or decrease text size |
| Firefox | View> Zoom text only | Control key > + or – to increase or decrease text size |
| Safari | View > Make text larger | Command key > + or – to increase or decrease text size |
| Opera | Menu > Zoom | Control key > + or – to increase or decrease text size |
Magnifying your screen
Another way to make text easier to read is by magnifying your screen. All recent versions of Windows include a magnifier, which allows users to enlarge a portion of the screen. Visually impaired people, however, may find that they require fully-functional magnification software.
Using a screen reader
Windows users can use Windows Narrator which converts on-screen text into speech. This is available in Windows 8/RT, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
In Apple’s OSX operating system, users will find the VoiceOver feature.
In addition, third-party screen readers are available such as JAWS (Job Access With Speech) and the freeware program NVDA.
PDF files
We use PDF files to help us preserve the look and feel of our original documents. To open and view PDF files, you can download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader free of charge.
Adobe also publishes information on accessing PDFs using screen readers.
