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
- Opening the view menu and selecting text size, you can choose from largest to smallest text size
- Hold ctrl and move the mouse wheel to your chosen text size
- Hold ctrl and + or - to increase or decrease the text size
Changing the font
- Open the tools menu and select Internet options
- In the new box, choose the general tab and click on accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
- Tick the box that says ignore font styles specified on web pages, then click ok
- Select the fonts button and select your font.
Changing the text and background colour
- Open the tools menu and select Internet options
- In the Internet options box choose the general tab and select accessibility, which is in the bottom right hand side of the box
- Tick the box that says ignore colours specified on web pages, then click ok
- Select the colours button, which is in the bottom left hand side, and un-tick the box that says use windows colours
- You can select the colour of the text and background by clicking in the coloured boxes and choosing your own colour
Turn off images
- Open the tools menu and select internet options
- In the internet options box, choose the advanced tab
- Scroll down to the multimedia section and un-tick the box that says show pictures and select Ok
- Refresh the page (F5) afterwards to view the changes.
Clear history
- Open the tools menu and select internet options
- In the internet options box, choose the general tab
- Select delete under browsing history
Tabbed browsing
- Internet explorer 6 does not have a tabbed browsing option.

