Accessibility

Web accessibility ensures all users, regardless of their physical and mental capability, are able to access the content and services on our website.

The following features will help ensure the best use of the Girlguiding site by all of our users:


Stylesheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

You can apply your own stylesheet onto this website by;

  • Internet Explorer;
    • select Tools, then Internet Options, then Accessibility,
    • next click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes,
    • in the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then browse to your style sheet and click OK.

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Changing screen display
Internet Explorer provides other ways in which the page is displayed on your screen.

For example you can remove the background colours and choose which colours to have text, links and visited links displayed. 
You can make these changes by:

•  Going to the 'Tools' menu at the top of the page
•  Selecting 'Internet Options...' from that menu
•  Clicking the 'Accessibility...' button

Then tick the box 'Ignore colors specified on Web pages'. 
Then click the 'OK' button. This will switch off the background colours.


You can choose the colours of text and links:
Un-tick the box 'Use Windows colors'.  You can then specify which colours you would prefer to be displayed for the text and for links. 

You can also specify colours to be used for links your have previously visited and links when your mouse hovers over them.

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Font size
Some users find screen text easier to read by increasing the size that the text is displayed.

You can change the font size depending on your browser.

For Mozilla, Firefox, got to 'View' select 'Text Size' and Increase or Decrease.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the 'View', select 'Text Size' and then select either 'Larger' or 'Largest'.

Images
All images used in this site include descriptive alt tag attributes.


JavaScript
Ensure Java script is turned on. In Internet Explorer go to 'Tools', select 'Internet Options' and then 'Security' and select 'Custom level'. Scroll down to scripting and choose 'enable'.


Headings
HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.


More details on accessibility in Internet Explorer
Microsoft publishes detailed information on the accessibility features of the Internet Explorer 6 web browser and other Microsoft software.


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