Accessibility

We have updated the design of our website to make it more accessible for the majority of users.

Text resizing
The modern browsers we support (Firefox, Internet Explorer 8 and later, Chrome and Safari 5.x and later) feature in-built accessibility tools, including zoom and text-resizing.

You can change the text size or adjust the page zoom in your browser by following these instructions:

• PC / Internet Explorer 8:
  From the menu bar underneath the search field, select Page and point to Text size
• PC / other browsers
  Increase page zoom: Hold down the CTRL key and press +
  Decrease page zoom: Hold down the CTRL key and press
• Mac / all browsers
  Increase page zoom: Hold down the Command key and press +
  Decrease page zoom: Hold down the Command key and press –

Access keys
These can be accessed in the following way:
PC: hold down Alt
Mac: hold down Ctrl
Firefox: hold down Alt and Shift

Then press one of the keys listed below:
‘s’ to jump to the content
‘0’ to jump to the site navigation
‘4’ to jump to the site search
‘8’ to see our terms and conditions
‘c’ to jump to the comments (where comments are available).

Useful links for accessibility

• Advice from the BBC (external link)
• Advice for Microsoft users (external link)
• Advice for Apple users (external link)
• Advice for Linux users (external link)