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How to use our website for your needs
For a better experience on our website, if you have a visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairment, you could change the settings on your computer to suit your individual needs.
Making text bigger on your screen
- Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Display. Under Make text bigger on the Display tab, drag the slider to the right to increase the size of the sample text. Once you're happy with the text size, select Apply.
- macOS: In some apps, such as Mail, Messages, News and Safari, you can press Command-Plus (+) or Command-Minus (–) to adjust the text size while reading emails, messages, articles and web pages. In desktop labels: Control-click the desktop, choose Show View Options, click the “Text size” pop-up menu, then choose a text size.
Changing your desktop background colour
- Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Colour filters. Turn on the Turn on colour filters switch. Select one of the available colour filters.
- macOS: Select Apple menu icon, then click System Preferences. Select Accessibility. Click on Display, then click on Colour filters. Select the Enable Colour Filters check box. In the Filter type list, select the filter you want. If you selected Colour Tint, in the Colour list, select the tinting colour. Use the Intensity slider to modify the strength of the selected filter.
Support for people with dyslexia
- Windows and macOS: To facilitate ease of reading you can add the OpenDyslexic, Helperbird, Dyslex.ai or Dyslex.ie extensions to Chrome and Safari. There are also dyslexic-friendly fonts that you can download for free like OpenDyslexic, Lexend, Comic Sans, Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Gothic, Trebuchet, Bookman, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, Impact, Times.
Using voice recognition
- Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Speech. Turn on the Turn on Speech Recognition switch.
- macOS: Select Apple menu, then System Settings and click Accessibility. In Accessibility settings, click Voice Control. Turn on Voice Control.
Making text bigger on your screen
- Windows 10: Go to the Ease of Access settings on your computer. Select Display. Under Make text bigger on the Display tab, drag the slider to the right to increase the size of the sample text. Once you're happy with the text size, select Apply.
- macOS: In some apps, such as Mail, Messages, News and Safari, you can press Command-Plus (+) or Command-Minus (–) to adjust the text size while reading emails, messages, articles and web pages. In desktop labels: Control-click the desktop, choose Show View Options, click the “Text size” pop-up menu, then choose a text size.
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