Accessibility using Internet Explorer 6

Changing the text size
Changing the font
Changing the text and background colour
Turn off images
Clear history
Tabbed browsing

Changing the text size

  1. Opening the view menu and selecting text size, you can choose from largest to smallest text size
  2. Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
  3. Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size

Changing the font

  1. Open the tools menu and select Internet options
  2. In the new box, choose the general tab and click on accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
  3. Tick the box that says ignore font styles specified on web pages, then click ok
  4. Select the fonts button and select your font.

Changing the text and background colour

  1. Open the tools menu and select Internet options
  2. In the Internet options box choose the general tab and select accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
  3. Tick the box that says ignore colours specified on web pages, then click ok
  4. Select the colours button, which is in the bottom left hand side, and un-tick the box that says use windows colours
  5. You can select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes and choosing your own colour

Turn off images

  1. Open the tools menu and select internet options
  2. In the internet options box, choose the advanced tab
  3. Scroll down to the multimedia section and un-tick the box that says show pictures and select Ok
  4. Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.

Clear history

  1. Open the tools menu and select internet options
  2. In the internet options box, choose the general tab
  3. Select delete under browsing history

Tabbed browsing

  • Internet explorer 6 does not have a tabbed browsing option.

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