FCHO Help Page

Navigating this site

We hope you find it easy to find your way around our website.

You can move between different pages via:

The menu bar on the left of each page
Any underlined text

Simply move your cursor over the text and the cursor will change to a hand. You can then click your mouse to go to the page containing the information.

You can use the Site Map and Site Index pages to quickly see all of the information categories that are available on the website.

You can also search for specific information with the search text box at the top of the page.

Downloading files

Our website has lots of documents and forms that you can download to your computer to read in your own time or to print out. All of these documents are saved in a format called 'portable document format' or PDF for short. To be able to view and print these files you need to have the PDF reader called 'Adobe Acrobat Reader' installed on your computer. If you don't already have Acrobat Reader it is freely available from the Abobe website.

Printing Pages

You can switch to a 'Printer Friendly' version of any page in our website by clicking on the 'Printer Friendly Version' link at the top of the page. To print pages/documents either press Ctrl+P, Click the Print toolbar button or click File then Print in your browser's menu.

Browser Compatibility

Our website is designed to be compatible with recent versions of all major web browsers. The site works in all browsers but users of older browsers will not enjoy the full graphical content of the pages.

You can get the latest versions of all major web browser programs, free of charge, by visiting the manufacturer's websites. You will also find these programs on many computer magazine cover disks.

Speech enabled

This website is now speech-enabled, which means that you can download free software onto your personal computer and have the site read aloud to you. The free software is called Browsealoud, and is used on over 2000 websites in the UK and USA. Browsealoud is a Windows browser plug-in designed for use with Internet Explorer 4 upwards or Mozilla Firefox 1.5 upwards. If you install the Browsealoud plugin onto your PC, you can have the web pages on the FCHO website read to you (and other sites that are speech-enabled).

Legibility

Our website has been designed with reference to guidelines from the Royal National Institute for the Blind to be legible to as wide an audience as possible. If you are experiencing problems with legibility, or you find that this site is uncomfortable to read, you may wish to consider changing some of the default settings of your browser. This will alter the way web pages appear on your screen. Depending upon which browser and computer system you are using, these can be found in either the Preferences or Options menus.

Choosing a larger font size will mean that pages will be delivered to you with larger text, which will be easier to read. Some browsers also allow you to change the default font itself (it is typically set to Times or an equivalent) and you may find that switching to a sans serif font specifically designed for computing screens will make a distinct improvement.

Lastly, some browsers allow you to override all web page's text colour and background colour/image. By experimenting, you may be able to find a combination that improves the contrast between text and background.

For further information, please see the RNIB website. You may also find your browser manufacturer's website to be helpful.

Suggestions

We hope that you like our website, and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have on ways of developing it further. You can send these to us by filling out the Tell Us What You think online form.

Problems?

We would like to know if you are experiencing problems with our website. To report any errors, broken links etc, please use the the Tell Us What You think online form.

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