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This Web site has been built to be accessible when using any internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Opera. To zoom, or enlarge the text, as well as the entire page, is as simple as pressing the Ctrl+PlusSign keys.
A well built Web site allows the user to make decisions on the text, or font size, on a Web page, including changing the color of the text as well as the background color of a Web page. Read more about how you can use the features of your browser of choice to improve your Web site viewing experience.
Internet Explorer:
From the View menu, select Text size and choose a text size.
Firefox:
From the View menu, select Text size and choose Increase or Decrease.
Safari:
From the View menu, select Text size and choose Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller.
Opera:
From the View menu, select Zoom and choose a magnification factor.
Internet Explorer:
From the Tools menu, select Internet Options. From the General menu, click the Colors button. Deselect the check from the 'Use windows colors' box and select your preferred colors.
Firefox:
From the Tools menu, select Options. From the Content menu, click the Colors button and select your preferred colors.
Safari:
You can create a 'style sheet' of your preferred styles. Visit the Safari web site for more information.
Opera:
Select one of the many ways to customize your settings. Visit the Opera web site for more information.
Instead of clicking on a link with your mouse, use the Tab key on your keyboard. Each time you press the Tab key you move forward to the next link on the page. When you 'land' on a link, the link is surrounded by a box to show you that it is the current, or active link. Press the Enter key to follow the current link.
Instead of using your mouse to drag the scroll bar that is located on the right side of your page, try using the keyboard up arrow and down arrow keys to move up and down a page.
You can also move a screen's length at a time using your keyboard's Page Up and Page Down keys.
Internet Explorer Zoom lets you enlarge or reduce the view of a web page. Unlike changing font size, zoom enlarges or reduces everything on the page, including text and images. You can zoom from 10% to 1000%.
To zoom a web page while using Internet Explorer or Firefox
From the keyboard you can increase or decrease the zoom value in 10% increments:
