Site Help
Introduction
This Help section is intended to help you get the most from the Visit 1066 Country website. We have included notes on accessibility matters, together with guidance about browser compatibility, site structure and navigation,
and downloading information from this site
Contact details are available on our Contacts page.
Accessibility Matters
We have taken a great deal of care to design and implement this site with accessibility in mind.
We have followed the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in ensuring the content of the site is defined with sizes of relative rather than absolute units. This means text can be re-sized using browser controls (many sites use absolute values and therefore re-sizing has no effect). Please see the Browser Compatibility section for a discussion of possible problems relating to font re-sizing.
We have also endeavoured to ensure that downloadable information available on this site is accessible (see Downloading Information).
The site uses styles to format content. In the few unavoidable instances where tables are used to present information, we have tried to ensure that those tables linearise consistently and logically.
A text only link is offered on every page of this Website. Once in text only mode, the background colour and font attributes can be easily set to suit your needs by selecting the Change text only settings at the top of any page. To return to the graphical version of the site, click on your back button.
Browser Compatibility
Screen resolution
The site is optimised for use with a screen running at 800 x 600 resolution.
Font sizing
Because we have ensured the content of the site is defined with sizes of relative rather than absolute units, text can be re-sized using browser controls. In some cases the default font size set by a browser results in the content of this site being presented in very small text. If you are experiencing this problem, this may be due to use of an AOL browser. This browser uses the copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) installed on the host PC as its browser engine. The copy of IE in use may have text size set to 'smallest' (the default setting is 'medium'), which would give rise to such a problem. Unfortunately, the AOL browser 'wrapper' does not give the user access to the full set of IE browser commands normally available, including those which set the text size. In such cases. the advice on the www.cyberseniors.org site should to be followed to adjust relative text sizes.
Site Structure and Navigation
The main aid to navigation are the category and area menus available on each page.
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Plugins Explained
Plug-ins are software programs that extend the capabilities of your Web Browser in a specific way - giving you, for example, the ability to play audio samples, view video movies or control interactive content from within your browser.
Some of the 'enhanced' content on this website requires such software to be installed on your computer. The viewing of this content is optional of course and wherever possible an alternative 'non enhanced' version of such content will be offered.
Below are links to the freely available plugins required for you to get the most from this website:
QuickTime Plugin
Get the QuickTime Plugin
QuickTime is software that plays digitized video, audio, virtual reality and panoramic movies. QuickTime files are called "movies" (.mov files).
Downloading Information
Downloadable information on this Website is currently presented in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format files. We strongly recommend you use the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files. Visit Adobe Acrobat Website - Acrobat Reader for more information.
We also intend to make all such information also available as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files.
We are aware that users of Access technology may encounter difficulty reading files in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do encounter this problem we would advise you to visit http://access.adobe.com where you can download the Adobe Access plugin for the Acrobat Reader. This plugin provides an alternative view that supports screen-reading applications for Microsoft Windows. The site provides further information and tools to help make Adobe PDF files accessible to users with visual disabilities.