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Make Text Larger in your Web Browser
This section explains how to make text bigger in your web browser.
Making Text Larger in Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
Follow these steps to increase or decrease the size of the text for the web page you are viewing:
1. Open the 'View' menu with the mouse or by press 'Alt' and 'V' at the same time
2. Select the 'Text Size' option with the mouse or by pressing 'Z'
3. Increase or decrease the text size with the mouse or by using the up and down arrow keys and pressing 'Enter'
4. Alternatively you can press 'Ctrl' and '+' to increase the text size, 'Ctrl' and '-' to decrease the text size. 'Ctrl ' and '0' returns you to the default 'normal' size.
Follow these steps to set a minimum text size for all pages you visit:
1. Open the ' Tools ' menu with the mouse or press 'Alt' + 'T'
2. Click on ' Options', or press ' O ' , to open the Options dialog box.
3. Click the ' Content ' tab or use the arrow keys until it is highlighted (in blue).
4. In the Fonts & Colours box click on 'Advanced', or press 'Alt ' + 'D', to open the 'Fonts' dialog box. see Fig 1 below).
Fig 1
1. Click on 'Minimum font size' box or press 'Alt'+ 'O'. Use the up and down arrows to select a new font size and press 'Enter' - see Fig 2 below
2. Click 'OK' button or press 'Enter'
3. Click 'OK' button or tab to 'OK' button and press 'Enter'.
Fig 2
Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.
Making Text Larger in Internet Explorer 7
Follow these steps to increase or decrease the size of the text for the web page you are viewing:
Instructions
To do this press 'Ctrl' + '+' to increase the zoom and 'Ctrl' + '-' to decrease the zoom.
You can also change the text size. The way to do this does depend on how the site has been built.
For many sites you only need to do the following:
1. Open the 'Page' menu with the mouse or by pressing 'Alt'+ 'P'.
2. Select the 'Text Size' option with the mouse or by pressing 'X'. See Fig 1.
3. Choose your preferred text size by clicking on it or by using the up and down arrow keys to select it and then press 'Enter' .
Fig 1
The text on the website should now have changed to reflect your choice.
However some websites have fixed the size of their text ('hard-coded') and as a result these websites will not show the change you have just made. If you would like to use larger text on these sites follow the following steps:
1. Click on the ' Tools ' menu with the mouse or press ' Alt '+' O ' .
2. Click on ' Internet Options ' option with the mouse or press ' O ' . You should now see the ' Internet Options ' box as shown in Fig 2 below.
Fig 2
3. Click on the ' Accessibility ' button which is highlighted with a red circle in Fig 2 with the mouse or press ' Alt '+ ' E '.
Fig 3
4. In the Accessibility box click the ' Ignore font sizes specified on web page ' checkbox to add a tick or press ' Alt '+' Z ' as shown in Fig 3.
5. Click the ' OK ' button to return to the Internet Options box.
6. Click on the ' OK ' button, or press ' Tab ' until ' OK ' is selected and then press ' Enter ' to return to Internet Explorer.
Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.
Making Text Larger in IE5/IE6
Instructions
1. Open the ' View ' menu with the mouse or by pressing ' Alt'+'V ' .
2. Select the ' Text Size ' option with the mouse or by pressing ' X ' .
3. Choose your preferred text size with the mouse or by using the up and down arrow keys and pressing ' Enter ' or by clicking on it.
The text on our website should now have changed to reflect your choice.
Some websites have fixed the size of their text ('hard-coded') and as a result these websites will not show the change you have just made. If you would like to use your larger text on these sites follow the following steps:
1. Clcik on the 'Tools' menu with the mouse or press ' Alt '+' T ' .
2. Click on ' Internet Options ' option with the mouse or press 'O'. You should now see the 'Internet Options' box as shown in Fig 1, below.
Fig 1
3. Click on the ' Accessibility ' button which is highlighted with a red circle in Fig 1 with the mouse or press ' Alt '+ ' E '.
Fig 2
4. Click the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web page' checkbox to add a tick or press ' Alt '+' Z ' as shown in Fig 2.
5. Click the ' OK ' button twice with the mouse or press ' Enter ' twice, to return to Internet Explorer.
Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.
Mac OS 8 & 9, OS X
Make Text Larger in Safari
Make Text Larger in Firefox 1.5 and 2
Make text larger In Your Web Browser
This section explains how to make text bigger in your web browser.
Note: Mac key convention: ' Ctrl ' is used for 'Control', ' Apple ' is used for 'Command' and ' Alt ' is used for the 'Option' key .
Note: For keyboard access make sure ' Full keyboard access ' is turned on - you can turn it on or off; by pressing ' Ctrl ' + ' F1 ' at any time.
Follow these steps to increase or decrease the size of the text for the web page you are viewing:
1. Click on the ' View ' menu with the mouse.
2. Click on ' Make Text Bigger' or Make Text Smaller to change the font size.
Or to to use keyboard shortcuts:
1. Increase or decrease the text size with ' Apple ' and ' + ' (plus) and ' Apple ' and ' - ' (minus).
To set a larger text size for all pages you visit take the following steps
Make Text Larger in Safari
1. Click on the ' Safari ' menu with the mouse and then then click on ' Preferences ' or press ' Apple ' + ,' (Comma). (see Fig 1, below)
Fig 1
2. Click on the ' Appearance ' icon or press ' Ctrl ' + ' F5 ' to highlight the ' General ' icon and then press the right arrow key to highlight ' Appearance ' then press the ' Spacebar ' see Fig 1, below).
Fig 2
Click on ' Select ' next to ' Standard font: ' box or press ' Tab ' once to highlight the ' Select ' button and then press the ' Spacebar ' as shown in Fig 2.
3. This will bring up the ' Fonts ' window click on font size you want under the ' Sizes ' heading or press ' Ctrl ' + ' F6 ' then ' Ctrl ' + ' F7 ' then ' Tab ' twice to enter the ' Sizes ' box were you can type in the font size you want as highlighted in Fig 2 and then press ' Enter '.
4. Click on the ' Fonts ' box close button or press ' Esc '.
5. Click on the ' Appearance ' window close button or press ' Esc ' to return to Safari.
6. On pages that support it the text size should now have changed.
Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.
Making text larger in Firefox 1.5 and 2
To set a larger text size for all pages you visit take the following steps
1. Click the ' Firefox ' menu with the mouse or press ' Ctrl ' + ' F2 ' to highlight the menu bar and then press the right arrow to highlight the ' Firefox ' menu .
2. Click on ' Preferences' or press the down arrow to highlight ' Preferences ' and then press ' Enter '.
3. Make sure the ' Content ' tab is selected if not click on it (or use the left / right arrow keys to select it).
4. Under ' Fonts and Colors ' click on ' Advanced ' or use the ' Tab ' key to highlight it and press the ' Spacebar ' to select - see Fig 1 below.
Fig 1
5. Click an the 'Size' drop down menu next to ' Proportional ' and select the font size you want - see Fig 2 below or ' Tab ' to ' Size' and use the up/down arrow keys and the ' Enter ' key to select.
Fig 2
6. Click the checkbox ' Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above ' to deselect it (turn it off) or ' Tab ' to the checkbox and press the ' Spacebar ' to deselect it
7. Click ' OK ' button or press ' Enter '
8. Press ' Apple ' + ' W ' to return to Firefox.
Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.