Website Accessibility for the Visually Impaired
This page has been designed with accessibility in mind. The pages at northbrook.ac.uk are designed in standards compliant XHTML and checked with the World Wide Web Consortium using their Online Validator . This ensures browser compatibility with existing browsers and future ones.
These standards enable useful accessibility features to be used with this (and any other) standard compliant website.
These features include:
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Style is exclusively controlled by Cascading Style Sheets and uses relative font sizes which allows resizing of the font using the browser (in Internet Explorer this is done under the 'View' menu and selecting a larger size)
- In most other browsers, this can be done by holding down the 'Ctrl' button and pressing the + and - keys.
- All images that convey information have an 'alt' attribute that describes what the image is describing.
- No information is exclusively conveyed using colour.
- The Page is designed to be usable at a minimum resolution of 800 x 600.
Browsers
This Website has been designed to be usable in a wide range of Browsers. The site has been tested and works with Internet Explorer 5.5 +, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari (Apple Mac) and Lynx (text browser). This site also has a style to be used with Mobile phones and is best used with Opera for Mobiles or the Default browser used in Nokia series 60 phones. If you are having trouble accessing any pages in this site please contact the webmaster at webmaster@nbcol.ac.uk .