How do our accessibility tools work?
To help you make changes to the look and feel of the site and structure, you’ll find our accessibility tool icon on every page. This tool features a range of functions that will help you navigate the site in a way that is specific to your needs.
Below you’ll find how-to videos and summaries of how to use each tool to ensure you have the best experience on our site.
What else are we doing to make our wealth of advice accessible?
Across the site you’ll also find a wide range of downloadable guides that are also accessible to ensure we cater for all abilities and disabilities.
There are four colour contrast settings for those with colour blindness or to cater to those who may find it hard to differentiate between colour contrasts.
- Invert colours
- Dark contrast
- Light contrast
- Desaturate
Find the icon contrast and keep clicking until you find the contrast that is suitable for you. To reset, simply click reset.
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Links are underlined to highlight hyperlinked text.
Highlight links and you will see all the links on the page become highlighted. To reset, simply click reset all.
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There are four options to increase text size to support those with visual impairments.
Click on the accessibility tool icon on your screen and to make the text bigger, simply click bigger text. There are four options which will increase the size of the text on the page. To reset, simply click reset all.
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Enable or disable animations such as GIFs or videos.
Click on the accessibility tool icon. And in order to stop animations, you simply click stop animations and it will stop any video or other animations on the page from playing. To reset, simply click reset all.
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Allows users to change the font on the page to a standard font, for ease of reading.
Click on the accessibility menu icon on the page and to change the fonts on the page to be more readable, simply chick legible fonts and it will change the fonts on the page. To reset, simply click reset all.
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Two options to enlarge your cursor along with a reading guide.
Click the accessibility tool on the page. To make the cursor bigger, simply click cursor. And there are two options, in addition to making the cursor bigger, you can also have a reading guide to help you read the text on the page. To reset, click reset all.
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There are three settings to increase space between text:
Heavy spacing
Light spacing
Moderate spacing
Click the accessibility icon on your screen. To increase the spacing between the words on the page, click text spacing. There are three options: light, moderate and heavy and it will increase the text spacing on the page. To reset all, just click reset all.
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This tool will display a list of what’s on the page to make it easier to jump straight to a specific section.
Click on the accessibility menu on the page and to view the page structure for navigation. Simply click page structure and you will see every element of the navigation on here which you can click to go straight to that section of the page. To reset, simply click reset all.
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The voice reader assists those with visual impairments. Drag your mouse or keypad over any of the words which will voice out the text. The voice ready will be available in other languages.
This has been temporarily disabled but will be added shortly.
You can also watch all the how-to videos on our YouTube channel.
