Accessibility

It is really important to us that as many people as possible can access the information on the Ted Lewis Centre website. The website has been built on a platform that is currently ‘cross browser’ compatible so it should display and navigate correctly on any current internet browsing device. Below you will find some general information detailing accessibility features and assistive technologies available to you in the most popular internet browsers. 

The five most popular web browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Opera in that order.

This method works on most commonly used web browsers:

Windows – From the keyboard, you can increase or decrease the zoom value in 10% increments. To zoom in, press Ctrl+(+). To zoom out, press Ctrl+(-). To restore the zoom to 100%, press Ctrl+0 (zero).

Mac – To zoom in, press Cmd+(+). To zoom out, press Cmd+(-). To restore the zoom to 100%, press Cmd+0 (zero).

Below you will find a step-by-step guide to zooming in on websites in your browser. If you have also changed the settings in your operating system and find that this does not magnify the text enough to be useful, then it is worth investigating screen magnification software.

These instructions are for use with the latest browser versions, however they may also work with other versions of the same web browser.

In order to increase or decrease the zoom level of the currently displayed web page, you can use either the keyboard shortcuts (see table below) or access ‘Zoom->Larger/Normal/Smaller’ in the Chrome Page menu.

Shortcut Action

Ctrl++ ​Increase zoom level.
​Ctrl+- ​Decrease zoom level.
Ctrl+0 ​Set zoom level to default level.

You can zoom in and out of web pages including images with the following keyboard shortcuts:

Press command++ to display the web page one size larger.
Press command+- to display the web page one size smaller.
Press command+0 (zero) to display the web page at its normal size.

The text in your browser window should now appear larger. Please note that you will have to make these adjustments for every website that you visit. However, Firefox will remember your settings, so you will only have to do this once for each site.

Internet Explorer Zoom lets you enlarge or reduce the view of a webpage. Unlike changing font size, zoom enlarges or reduces everything on the page, including text and images. You can zoom from 10% to 1000%.

Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Internet Explorer, and then, in the list of results, click Internet Explorer.

On the bottom right of the Internet Explorer screen, click the arrow next to the Change Zoom Level button Picture of the Change Zoom Level button.

To go to a predefined zoom level, click the percentage of enlargement or reduction you want.

– or –

To specify a custom level, click Custom. In the Percentage zoom box, type a zoom value, and then click OK.

• Open your Apple Safari browser.
• Hold down the Apple Key and press the (+) key.
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure.
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements.
• If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple Key on your keyboard and press the (-) key.

The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as using the Zoom facility in the Apple Operating System.

Opera’s zoom feature is visually accessible on the progress bar as a list of increments from 20% to 1000%. Zooming with the keyboard offers the same range, but also includes all the stepped increments in between. You can see this impressive range if you hold down a zoom key to scan from one extreme to the other.

With the keyboard, there are 5 keys for quickly zooming a document. They are: 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.

• zoom using 10% increments: zoom in 0, zoom out 9 (or use + and – on your number pad)
• zoom using 100% increments: zoom in 8, zoom out 7
• snap page back to 100% (normal) 6, (or use * on your number pad)