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Accessibility information for forumnorth.co.nz
Our site does not have any under construction pages but it’s still a work in progress. It always will be. We have many features planned and we are committed to developing a responsibly designed resource that is both usable & accessible to the widest audience possible.
This site is designed to work with or without a mouse so using the tab and the return keys you should be able to navigate the site with ease. Access Keys are not available for this website, please see below for details.
If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or any other older browsers a better internet experience can be achieved by using a more modern browser such as Fire Fox. If however, you have no choice for whatever reason we feel for you and hope that this site still serves you well. If you have any difficulties please let us know and we will do our best to help you out.
This site has been designed so that you are able to adjust the size of the text on screen.
Internet Explorer 5+
Click on the “View” menu
Click on “Text Size”
Click on your chosen size
Mozilla FireFox
Click on the “View” menu at the top of the screen
Click on “Text Size”
Click on “Increase”
Keyboard shortcut: Control +
Netscape 7 / Mozilla Browser
Click on the “View” menu
Click on “Text Zoom”
Click on “Larger” or a percentage greater than 100%
Keyboard shortcut: Control-+
Opera 7
Click on the “View” menu
Click on “Zoom”
Click on a percentage larger than 100%, or use the +100% or +10% options at the bottom of the menu
Keyboard shortcut: + or Control-+
Internet Explorer for Macintosh
Click on the “View” menu
Click on “Text Zoom”
Click on “Larger” or a percentage greater than 100%
Safari (Macintosh-only)
Click on the “View” menu
Click on “Make Text Bigger”
Keyboard shortcut: Apple +
Access keys are not supported by this site.
While it seems that access keys are a great idea in principle, implementation brings the possibility that they either will not be available to all users, or that the keystroke combination encoded within the web page may conflict with a reserved keystroke combination in an adaptive technology or future user agent. For this reason, we have elected not to implement accesskeys.
However, if you feel strongly that they should be enabled for this website, we’d be most happy to accept your comments and forward them to the appropriate decision makers.