Accessibility

The Department for Children, Schools and Families endeavours to ensure its' website is as accessible as possible.

We believe that by improving the accessibility of our website we improve our service to all of our customers. Therefore, we are currently working with our partners to make our site as accessible as possible.

To improve your current view you may consider altering your browser settings. This will allow you to change the font, the size and colour of the text along with background colour, and so on.

Information on browser upgrades is available here.

Browser Settings

Guidance provided below explains how to alter browser settings in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

If you have any problems altering your settings, go to the Help facility on the browser toolbar. Also when your browser has different options to those below, you can get further assistance by clicking the Help facility.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

To apply permanently the font and colour changes:

On View >Tools menu, click Internet Options
On General tab, select Accessibility
Click the three boxes to show ticks.

Changing the font

Using a sans serif font (such as Arial) rather than a serif font (such as Times New Roman) can make text easier to read.

On View / Tools menu, click Internet Options
On General tab, click Fonts
In Proportional and Fixed-width font lists, select the fonts you would like to use.

Displaying text larger or smaller