Browser Settings for Text and Colours

Choosing browser text & colours

You can specify the font sizes, styles, foreground and background colours of web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the web page has already specified these. You can also specify the colour used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special colour for links that are used only when the mouse passes over the link. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours.

IE (PC)
IE (Mac)
Firefox (PC)
Opera (PC)
Safari (PC)
Safari (Mac)

Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Internet options....'.
Click on the 'General' tab.
Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'.
To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'.
To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'.
Click OK (and again if necessary).
Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Text size'.
Select your desired text size.

Select the 'edit' menu at the top of your window.
From the options menu which appear, select 'preferences'.
Click on 'web content'.
Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'.
Return to the list of preferences.
Click on 'web browser'.
Select 'language/fonts'.
Select the font size you require.

Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Preferences'.
Click on the 'Content' tab.
To change your font, use the drop-down box marked 'Default Font.
To change your font size, use the drop-down box marked 'Size'.
To change background and font colours, click the button marked 'Colours'.
Select your chosen colours from the options available.
Click OK once or twice as necessary.

Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Preferences'.
Click on the 'Web Pages' tab.
To change your font, click the buttons marked 'Normal Font' or 'Monospace Font' as required and choose your font, font size and font colour.
Click OK.
To change background and link colours, click the buttons marked 'Background color', 'Normal link color' or 'Visited link color' as required and choose your preferred colour.
Click OK once or twice as necessary.

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Preferences'.
Click on the 'Appearance' tab.
To change your font, click the buttons to the right of the boxes marked 'Standard Font' or 'Fixed-Width Font' as required and choose your font and font size.
Click the box marked x in the top right hand corner of the dialog box to close it.

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of your window.
From the options which appear, select 'Preferences'.
Click on the 'Appearance' tab.
To change your font, click the buttons to the right of the boxes marked 'Standard Font' or 'Fixed-Width Font' as required and choose your font and font size.
To change the default colours use the drop-down boxes at the top of the dialog box.
Click the box marked x in the top right hand corner of the dialog box to close it.