Accessibility for this site
Accessibility options for this site
The Inclusion London website attempts to present a clear layout which is widely accessible.
Inclusion London has been built with findability, accessibility and usability in mind, so we hope you can find, access and use the information you need. This page explains the accessibility features available on the web site. We are always happy to receive feedback about accessibility on the web site so do contact us with your comments.
Access Keys (shortcuts)
You can navigate to the sections this site using your keyboard. Available shortcuts are:
Home = 1
About us = 2
News = 3
Policy= 4
Directory= 5
Contact us = 6
Accessibility for this site = 7
To use the access keys, you press the "Alt" key and the number or letter above, then press "Enter". On a Mac you press the "Ctrl" key and the number or letter.
Hearing websites
There are some programs available which allow your computer to talk to you.
Windows Narrator is a basic screen-reading program, offering speech feedback for all menus and dialog boxes, Windows Explorer and Notepad but will not speak out a whole Word documents or web page. There are however, a number of text to speech programs available any selected text to be spoken back to the user. (Window's Narrator is currently only available for Windows 2000 and XP)
Mac OS:
- Go to 'System Preferences'
- Select 'Universal Access'
From here you can turn on the text to speech function.
Page layout
Text size
You can control the size of the text and change fonts if you wish. Here's how:
To change the text size in Internet Explorer (a typical Windows browser):
- Select View in the menu bar
- Select Text Size
- You'll get a list of different font (text) size options –choose the size that's appropriate for you.
To change the text size in Safari (a typical Mac OS X browser):
- Select the View menu from the Finder bar
- Select Make Text Bigger and choose the size that's appropriate for you.
- In addition to text size – the font type (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc) is also selectable via the browser.
To display web page text in a different font in Internet Explorer:
- Go to the Tools menu and click on Internet Options
- On the General tab, click Fonts
- In the Web page font and Plain text font lists, click on the fonts that you want to use.
Magnifying the screen
You could try magnifying the screen if increasing the text size does not make text easy to read.
Mac OS users:
Go to 'System Preferences' and click on 'Universal user'. Here you can magnify the screen and have the option to turn on the 'text to speech' function.
Windows users:
All recent versions of Windows include magnification software. This allows you to greatly increase text size, but is restricted to a small portion of the screen.
To use Windows magnifier click on the 'Start' menu, then select 'Programs', 'Accessories', 'Magnifier'. The settings dialog box will appear; from here you can adjust the magnification as desired.