Accessibility
At North West Employers, we are working towards complying with Priority 2 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These include the following considerations:
- Our pages are designed so that they can be viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
- A stylesheet is used to separate content from formatting, and relative font sizes on all text with the exception of graphical text.
- Text can be increased or decreased in size by using the appropriate options in your chosen browser. Please see below.
- Images that convey important information have alternative text to describe them.
- No information is exclusively conveyed using colour.
- No scripting language is required to access the full functionality of the site
- A site map is available to provide information about the layout of the website
If you have difficulty accessing the site or have any comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us. Click the link below to e-mail Vivien.
Vivien HindleControlling Text and Colours in Your Web Browser
You can specify the font sizes and foreground and background colour of web pages displayed on your computer screen. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours.
If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet, the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser.
- Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
- From the options which appear, select 'Internet Options...'
- Click on the 'General’ tab.
- Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'.
- To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'.
- To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'.
- Click OK (and again, if necessary).
- Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.
- From the options, which appear, select 'Text Size'.
- Select your desired text size.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Mac
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser.
- Select the 'edit' from the menu at the top of your window.
- From the options menu which appears, select 'preferences'.
- Click on 'web content'.
- Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'.
- Return to the 'list of preferences'.
- Click on 'web browser'.
- Select 'language/fonts'.
- Select the font size you require.
Instructions for Users of Netscape Navigator
Text:
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'.
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category.
- Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size' select 18.
- Next to the Varible Width Font field is a drop down box: Select 'Arial'.
- The Fixed Width Font box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.
- To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'.
- Click ‘OK’.
Colours:
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'.
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colours' category.
- Select a colour button to change colours of text, background, unvisited links or visited links.
- To override the colours used by the designer of the web page, select 'Always use my colours, overriding document'.
- Click ‘OK’.
Viewing PDF documents
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents.
Please note that Abode 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 at the foot of this page to download the software.