DSComm - Disability Support Community

Here at DSCOMM.org, we appreciate that the visitors to our site may have individual visual, and other needs to better view and access our site. We are keen to make it as user-friendly as possible, and we have a few basic tips that may help if you do have such requirements...

Most internet browsers have individual options to change the content text size, making it either larger or smaller to suit. Below are several individual instructions that you may find useful... we add, that if you have any problems with the implementation of the advice below, we are happy to assist you 24hrs a day; refer to our 'Contact Us' page, and we will get back to your email as quickly as possible.

Our website has been tested and found to comply with the appropriate and relevant sections of the '508 Accesibility Standards and WCAG Priority 1,2,3' criteria when applied to this site, for sections 6.3, 7.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 10.5, 12.2. The site has also been certified and verified to comply with the 'Alt Text Quality' guidelines.

Internet Explorer (version 7.0 and greater)

To change text sizes in Internet Explorer (version 7.0 and greater) for Windows:

1. Select View
2. Scroll to Text Size and choose your preference

Internet Explorer (versions 5.x-6.x)

To change the text sizes in Internet Explorer (versions 5.x-6.x) for Windows, you must first disable style sheets. To do so, follow the directions below:

1. Select Tools and click Internet Options
2. Select the General tab and click the box entitled Accessibility
3. Ensure that all three buttons under Formatting are checked
4. Click OK in Accessibility dialog box
5. Click OK in Internet Options dialog box
6. Click Refresh

After successfully disabling style sheets,

1. Select View
2. Scroll to Text Size and choose your preference

Firefox

From the Firefox Menu Bar select View>Text Size>Increase

1. This will cause the text to display on the web page one size larger. However this is a temporary change.

To make a permanent font size change:

1. From the Firefox Menu Bar, select Tools>Options
2. Click on General
3. Click on Fonts & Colors
4. Set the font sizes. Minimum font size.can also be set

Safari

1. From the Safari menu, select Preferences.
2. Click Appearance.
3. To change the standard font or fixed-width font used in pages, click the appropriate Select button.
4. Change the font size using the slider bar.

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