Accessibility

About the accessibility of our website

One of our key objectives in designing this site has been to make easily accessible to as many as possible of the people of Cumbria. In particular, we have tried to design the core parts of the site in such a way that: users who find it hard to read the standard screen display can zoom in to make text sizes easier to read.

We can only be certain that the core site design meets all access needs when we have had feedback from a wide range of users. We would therefore be especially interested to hear from site users who have special access needs about their experience of using the site.

Text size

If you find the text on our website too large or too small, you can adjust this through your browser.

Instructions can be found below to change the text size for the most popular web browsers and operating systems.

Windows keyboard shortcuts:

Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and – to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size

Macintosh keyboard shortcuts:

Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and – to decrease the text size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size

Internet Explorer

If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Text Size from the drop down menu. From here you can choose the most appropriate size for you.

Mozilla Firefox

Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Text Size from the drop down menu. From here you can increase or decrease the text size to suit your preference.

Safari

Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller from the drop down menu.

Opera

Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Zoom from the drop down menu. From here you can choose an appropriate percentage.