We endeavour at all times to make the site as accessible as reasonably possible to disabled users. In no way does Holman Fenwick Willan seek to deliberately discriminate against disabled users access to the website service in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. For further information about the Terms & Conditions of use of this website, please contact the Site Administration.
Using the keyboard
This website will also work effectively without a mouse. Pressing
the 'tab' key on your keyboard will skip to the next link, and pressing
the return key will select it for you.
Your arrow keys will help you scroll up or down the page. The
backspace or back delete key, will move you to the previous page you
visited.
Accessibility options
To change text size, font and font size, background and font colour, clear history, turn off images, tabbed browsing in the following browsers:
Firefox
Changing the text size
- Opening the view menu and selecting to increase or decrease the text size
- Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
- Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size
Changing the font and font size
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the content tab and under the fonts & colours section select advanced
- Un-tick the box that says allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above
- Select your font and size
You can also set the minimum font size; this will guarantee that whatever you are looking at it will never display the font at a size below the size you have chosen.
Changing the text and background colour
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the content tab and under the fonts & colours section select colours
- Select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes
- To ensure that your colours are used un-tick the allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above box and un-tick the use system colours box
- Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.
Turn off images
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the content tab and un-tick the load images automatically box so there is no tick there
- Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.
Clear history
- Open the tools menu and select clear private data
- In the clear private data box tick the items you wish to delete including browsing history
- Confirm by selecting clear private data now
Tabbed browsing
You can have several hfw pages open at the same time in just the one-browser window.
- Right click on the link you would like to open a new tab with and choose Open link in new tab
- The page will appear in a tab at the top of the browser so that you can click on it when you are ready to look at that particular page.
Netscape
Changing the text size
- Opening the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
- Click on the fonts & colours button
- in the fonts & colours box, set the minimum font size to none
There are 3 ways in which to adjust the size of the text:
- Opening the view menu and selecting to increase or decrease the text size
- Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
- Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size
Changing the font and font size
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
- Click on the fonts & colours button
- In the fonts & colours box, tick the box that says always use my font
- Select your font and size
Changing the text and background colour
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the general tab, which is underneath browser options
- Click on the fonts & colours button
- In the fonts & colours box, un-tick the box that says use system colours
- Tick the box that says always use my colours
- Select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes
- Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.
Turn off images
To turn off images you need to open the security centre. There are 2 ways of doing this:
- Click on the security centre button that's in the top right hand corner of the browser
- Open the tools menu and select security centre, a security menu will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the browser
- Select the current site-rating tab and click on the small blue arrow next to your trust setting
- A new box will appear, click on the advanced tab
- Un-tick the box that says allow images to be displayed
Clear history
- Open the tools menu and select options
- In the options box, choose the privacy tab, which is underneath security and privacy
- Under page history you can choose the number of days you wish your history to be kept for or you can tick the clear page history on browser exit box
Tabbed browsing
You can have several hfw web pages open at the same time in just the one-browser window.
- Right click on the link you would like to open a new tab with
- Select Open in new tab - this lets you view the new page in the new tab straight away.
Internet Explorer 6
Changing the text size
- Opening the view menu and selecting text size, you can choose from largest to smallest text size
- Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
- Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size
Changing the font
- Open the tools menu and select Internet options
- In the new box, choose the general tab and click on accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
- Tick the box that says ignore font styles specified on web pages, then click ok
- Select the fonts button and select your font.
Changing the text and background colour
- Open the tools menu and select Internet options
- In the Internet options box choose the general tab and select accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
- Tick the box that says ignore colours specified on web pages, then click ok
- Select the colours button, which is in the bottom left hand side, and un-tick the box that says use windows colours
- You can select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes and choosing your own colour
Turn off images
- Open the tools menu and select internet options
- In the internet options box, choose the advanced tab
- Scroll down to the multimedia section and un-tick the box that says show pictures and select Ok
- Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.
Clear history
- Open the tools menu and select internet options
- In the internet options box, choose the general tab
- Select delete under browsing history
Tabbed browsing
Internet explorer 6 does not have a tabbed browsing option.
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