Accessibility
We comply with guidelines from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) to ensure that our websites are accessible to all
visitors.
We provide text alternatives for non-text content and make our
websites fully compatible with 'screen readers'.
Most browsers allow for the text size to be increased and decreased
at will but many websites overrule this ability by 'hard-coding'
the font size in pixels, and therefore
in stone. This is not so much a problem with the browsers
of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and Netscape but Microsoft
Internet Explorer requires a few steps to override these
'hard-coded' text size settings:
• Menu items: Tools > Internet Options
• Click on 'Accessibility' (bottom
right)
• Then tick the following options:
[/] Ignore colors specified on Web pages
[/] Ignore font styles specified on Web pages
[/] Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages
Nevertheless, 'hard-coding' text size is no longer necessary using advanced CSS
('Cascading Style Sheets') and we can make it so that
even Internet Explorer listens to the simple instruction
of increasing 'Text Size' (using the 'View' menu).
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Printing
Printing a website often results in a very colourful (and ink-consuming) print-out.
We used to provide 'text-only'
versions of our websites for printing purposes, but using
the latest CSS technology ('Cascading Style Sheets') we can
now program our websites in such a way that only the relevant
content of a page is printed (see, for example, the 'Print
Preview' of this page).
This CSS printing method can be taken a step further, as the print-outs can now
be styled differently from the website.
This allows for a beautiful brochure-style print-out of a website
using the same content but attaching a different 'style sheet'
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