JISC has striven to ensure that content on this site is perceivable to as many of its stakeholders as possible. To this end you may find that some content is duplicated, for example where a presentation is posted, a paper giving more details may also be available, or an mp3 recording of the presentation. In this way we hope to make the content available as broadly as possible, whilst maintaining the integrity of the intended content. If there is specific content that you feel unable to access, in any of the forms available then please contact us at web@jisc.ac.uk.
Usability and accessibility features of the JISC website
When using this site, you will find a number of features that will help you to find the information you are looking for:
Finding your place in the site
The horizontal navigation bar at the top of each page shows each section of the site. In most cases, the section heading is repeated in the vertical navigation bar on the left hand side of the page. If a section has more than one page you will find links to a section's pages underneath the section heading in the left navigation bar.
Skipping the navigation
If you are using an audio browser and don't wish to have the navigation read out to you on any page, we have included a 'skip to content' link as one of the first entries on the page. If you select this link you will be taken straight to the page heading, and then the page content.
Returning to the homepage
When you want to return to the home page, you can click on the 'home' link on the horizontal navigation bar or on the JISC logo.
Increasing the size of the text
If you prefer the font size on the pages to be larger or smaller, then use the 'increase font' and 'decrease font' options in the top right corner of the page. This may not work if your browser does not support JavaScript. Alternatively, you can control font size using your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using. Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:
Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and above
Provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size.
You change font size by:
- selecting 'View' from the menu bar, and,
- selecting 'Text Size' then,
- select the size you want from the list.
Or:
- press and hold the 'Alt' key, then
- type 'V' and 'X', then
- release 'Alt' key, then
- select the size you want from the list
The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.
Opera Version 6.0 and above
You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:
- press and hold the 'Alt' key, then
- type 'V' and 'Z', then
- release 'Alt' key, then
- select the size you want from the list
If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:
- press and hold the "CTRL" key, then move the wheel up and down to change the size of the text.
Firefox
Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.
To increase the displayed font size:
- Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the '+' key.
- Font size will increase immediately.
- If you want to increase the size further simply press the '+' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
To decrease the displayed font size:
- Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the '-' key.
- The font size will decrease immediately.
- If you want to decrease the size further simply press the '-' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Firefox.
Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.
Appendix: technical issues
This site uses CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict. Where appropriate, we have made content available via RSS, allowing the content to be imported into your RSS reader of choice.
We have used microformats where possible to allow content to be easily extracted.
The pages have been tested against the standards for Strict HTML given by World Wide Web Consortium.
All pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.
The most common browsers who are known to cause trouble are:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
- Netscape Navigator 4.x
- Opera 3.5
- Any older versions of the above mentioned
Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are deliberately excluded from some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Netscape has released a new version (6.01), which supports CSS.
This site has been tested against:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0*, 5.0, 5.5
- Netscape Navigator 4.7*, 6.01*
- Opera 5
*denotes some design irregularities.
Users of text-only browsers, screen readers or those who have disabled style sheets will notice that there are two search fields in the search form. Please use the first field only to search. The second field is part of a workaround to make the search work correctly and is not displayed by the stylesheet.
Lawrie Phipps, JISC