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See also Accesskeys: Unlocking Hidden Navigation on A List Apart and Access Key Companion on Juicy Studio for information about access-key strategies.

Our Favorite Accessibility Site

The Leonard Cheshire Disability site uses Aardman Animation creatures to help you see disability in a new light.

Accessibility

This site has been designed to be as usable as possible for screen readers and keyboard-only use. Details of the accessibilty features on the site are given below.

Skip the Menus

Each page on the site has a link, shown at the upper left as "Skip to the Main Content," that lets you jump directly to the main content on the page. The header is ignored.

Change the Text Size

So that this site and the text are resizable, our text styles use proportional sizes and percentages rather than fixed sizes and widths.

You can change the font size of all the text by changing the web browser settings in your browser's View menu. In Internet Explorer, for example, the options are View > Text Size > Larger or Largest.

Note also that pressing Ctrl and + zooms up all web pages (not just ours)--the text and pictures both get larger. Pressing Ctrl and - makes them smaller.

File Downloads

Some of the files available for downloading are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. To view these files, you will need to have the Acrobat Reader software, which you can download from Adobe's website.

Adobe's website also provides information on Accessibility features and how you can convert a PDF document to HTML

Read the Text Out Loud and Other Options

We suggest the following three options:

  1. Web Anywhere, a web-based screen reader for the web built at the University of Washington, requires no special software on your computer and lets you access the web aurally from any computer you happen to have access to.
  2. BrowsealoudBrowsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. To use Browsealoud, you need to download and install the software. When it is running, you can have the text read aloud simply by moving the mouse over the text. You don't have to click or select the text.
  3. We recommend ZoomText as a quick, relatively inexpensive, and painless way to find out about screenreaders and magnifiers. (We use it to test sites for screenreader accessibility.) You can download a demo copy from their site.

Also try these browser toolbars:

Get Help or More Information

If you have any questions or are having problems using the site, please or call us at 718 720-1169.