Accessibility

This site has been designed and built to adhere to the W3C Accessibility Standards. It has been tested by people with a range of impairments which affect the way they use the Internet. We welcome feedback to improve the site for everyone who may wish to use it.

Accesskeys

The following accesskeys are active on all pages throughout this web site:

Key	Navigates to
1	Home
2	How we work
3	Our staff and advisor programmes
4	Our Trust programmes
5	Are you eligible?
6	About us
l	Legal information
p	Privacy
0	Accessibility
s	Sitemap

How to use accesskeys in:

IE5:	hold the ALT key and press the letter of the accesskey, then press RETURN
IE 4:	hold the ALT key and press the letter of the accesskey
IE 5+ for Mac:	hold the CTRL key and press the letter of the accesskey
IE 4.5 for Mac:	accesskeys are not supported
Netscape:	accesskeys are not supported
Lynx:	accesskeys are not supported

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Changing your browser settings

By changing settings on your browser you can make a web page easier for you to use by changing the page and content appearance.

Displaying text larger or smaller

Changing text and background colours

Overriding text and font styles

Other browser settings

Displaying text larger or smaller

IE:
From the View / Tools menu, click Text Size and select larger or smaller

Netscape:
From the View menu, click Increase Font or Decrease Font

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Changing text and background colours

IE:

• From the View / Tools menu, click Internet Options
• On the General tab, click Colors
• In this panel you can set the text and background colour. Click OK to save changes and exit

Netscape:

• From the Edit menu, click Preferences
• Click on Appearance
• Click on Colors
• In this panel you can set the text and background colour. Click OK to save changes and exit

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Overriding text and font styles

Use these settings to make your browser ignore fonts and styles set on a web page

IE:

• From the View / Tools menu, click Internet Options
• On the General tab, click Accessibility
• The Formatting options allow fonts and styles to be overriden

Netscape:

• From the Edit menu, click Preferences
• Click on Appearance
• Click on Fonts
• Select the 'Use my default fonts...' option to override fonts
• Click on Colors
• Select the 'Always use my colors...' option to override colours

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Other browser settings

Other settings are available to tailor your web pages such as turning off picture display and changing fonts

IE:

• From the View / Tools menu, click Internet Options
• Click the Advanced tab
• Choose options from the list available

Netscape:

• From the Edit menu, click Preferences
• Click on Appearance
• Use options here to turn off pictures or to change font
• Click on Advanced
• Use options here to control scripting and style sheets

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