Change text size
This website is designed so that you can change the size of text using your browser (the programme you use to access the internet).
Below you will find a step-by-step guide to enlarging the text in three of the most popular browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.
More detailed information about how to change the fonts and font sizes in your operating system and in various other browsers is available online at BBC My Web My Way. This comprehensive site also includes information about changing the colours in your operating system and web browser, changing the mouse pointer and using the keyboard instead of the mouse.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open your Internet Explorer web browser
- Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked "view"
- A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose "text size"
- Next another drop down menu should appear with options including "small", "medium", "large", "largest"
- Select "largest".
The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open your Firefox browser
- Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key
The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as screen magnification software.
Apple Safari
- Open your Apple Safari browser
- Hold down the Apple Key and press the (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple Key on your keyboard and press the (-) key
The text in your browser window should now appear larger. If this is still too small for you then it may be that you need to look at other ways of enlarging the text on your screen, such as using the Zoom facility in the Apple Operating System.
