OSCR's website follows the W3C's Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines. Find out more about how you can improve this website's accessibility
Browsealoud
Visitors to OSCR's website are now able to listen to the content
by using Browsealoud.
Browsealoud is a free tool which is used to 'read' web pages
aloud. The service is designed to improve access to information and
services on our website for people who have difficulties reading
online.
The service can be accessed by simply clicking on the
Browsealoud icon and downloading the free plug-in.
Text size
You can change the text size by using the text size button (4 A's)
located at the top of all our web pages.
Changing colours
Changing the site's background colour can be particularly
useful for users who rely on magnification technology as white can
produce an uncomfortable glare. It is also possible to change the
colour of body text on the site. Both can be achieved by changing
preferences in your browser:
- If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" menu,
select "Internet Options", select "Colors" and make changes to text
and background colours in the Colors panel. Then choose the
"Accessibility" button and tick the box labelled "Ignore colours
specified on Web"
- If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the "Edit" menu, select
"Preferences", open the "Appearance" menu and select "Colors". You
can set the colour of text and background from here.
Viewing PDFs (Portable Document Format)
Some of our documents are in PDF format which means they can
only be viewed using Adobe Reader. This software is available
free of charge from the
Adobe web site
All PDF documents on this site will open in a new Web browser
window. After viewing or printing the document, you can close the
new Web browser window by using the close button at the top right
hand corner.
Adobe also offer other useful resources and tools to aid the
accessibility of PDFs, these can be accessed from their
website.