Accessibility

The two most popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Below you will find a step-by-step guide to enlarging the text in your internet browser. 

These instructions are for use with the browser versions listed below, however they may also work with other versions of the same web browser. 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0

• Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser 
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked View 
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose text size 
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, largest 
• Select largest 

  Picture 1: How to adjust your text size with Internet Explorer

The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software. 

Netscape Navigator 4.6

• Open your Netscape Web Browser 
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window marked Edit 
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, select Preferences 
• This will open a large window. 
• In a box on the left hand side of this window you will find a list of choices. At the top of this box you will see the word Appearance and under that fonts and colours. 
• Select Fonts 
• Another window will appear called Fonts and under it will be several boxes. 
• In the box will be the text For the encoding and a drop down box. In this box it will read western. 
• Underneath this there will be the text variable width font and a drop down box. Select the box and a drop down menu should appear. Now choose Arial. 
• In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18 
• Underneath this there will be the text fixed width font and a drop down box. This should already be set by default to Courier New. 
• In the box next to this there is the text Size. Choose the drop down box and select 18. 
• Underneath these boxes there is the text Sometimes a document will produce its own fonts. 
• Beneath this there are three choices. The top choice is Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts. 
  Choose this option by selecting the circle next to this sentence. 
• Now select OK. 
• The text should now appear larger in the window of your browser. 
• If the text is still not large enough for you then repeat the instruction and when you select Size and make the text larger than 18. 

If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software. 

Netscape Navigator 6.2 and 7.0

• Open your Netscape browser 
• Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key 
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure 
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements 
• If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key 

OR 

• Open your Netscape browser
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked View 
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose text zoom 
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including 120%, 150%, 200% 
• Select the text size required. 

 
 
  Picture 2: How to adjust your text size with Netscape Navigator 
 

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