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Bookmarking | Navigation | Site Index | Optimisation | Visual Impairment As a frequent visitor to this site, you might like to save the time spent typing and re-typing the RBA site's URL (web address), by bookmarking the home page. In Explorer, use the Favorites > Add Page to Favorites command : in Netscape, the equivalent is Bookmarks > Add Bookmark. Once you are online again, you can activate the bookmark by going to your browser's Favorites or Bookmarks menu and scrolling down till you find the RBA home page entry : the browser will then automatically find the page without you needing to type in the address. Remember that if you want regular direct access to another page within this site (the primary triads page, for example, or the special schools page), you can bypass the home page by bookmarking the relevant page(s) instead. Links
Toolbar The following table describes the function of all the buttons that appear in the toolbar : on a given page, the link to that page is replaced by a blank. The order and position of the buttons remains consistent.
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Optimisation (getting the best results from this site) Your Computer System For best results, set your monitor to 24 bit / millions of colours / true colour (use the Monitors control panel on a Mac or the Settings > Control Panel > Display option in Windows). There should, however, be no significant problems if you are forced to operate below the suggested specification. All the site's pages should display correctly (without horizontal scrolling) provided your monitor's display resolution is set to a minimum of 800*600. Browsers Technical Note : Netscape Navigator 4+ may not support all of the features which depend on compliance with Cascading Stylesheet standards (CSS1) as set by the W3C – however, even if you do use it, there should be no significant impairment of core function and no access to content will be compromised. If you are concerned about this issue, we recommend that you upgrade to Navigator 6.x. In either browser, using the preferences to allow default page colours to override those specified in the design of this site should not cause you to lose the legibility of any information : but you will be deprived of the guidance that our colour coding aims to provide and the site won't look so nice, so we recommend you not to do it. Efforts have been made to help those with visual disability : the use of alt tags on images should ensure that speech synthesis software (talking browsers such as Jaws) can read the navigation aids. Font sizes have been specified by means of a cascading stylesheet (css). If you need to enlarge text, it should still respond to the View > Text Zoom or View > Increase Font Size commands in Explorer and Navigator respectively. There are some browser versions which form exceptions to this state of affairs, but in case of difficulty you can switch off the stylesheet and allow the browser defaults to come into play - see Preferences > Web Content in Explorer and Preferences > Appearance in Netscape. A useful option to consider is that of switching to the Opera browser which, though less tried and tested than the major browsers, has been specially developed to allow readers to zoom in and enlarge text and graphics alike, in a way that neither Explorer nor Netscape can manage. Opera is free : you can download a trial version which gives 30 days' advertising-free use, after which you have the option of continuing to use it with display ad-banners or of buying a permanently ad-free copy online for $39 (approx £17.50) for a single licence. There is an educational discount price of $20 (approx £9) for which you may be eligible. back to the top of the page |
