Accessibility statement

Spot Your Potential is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

Visual Design

Using the Spot your potential Accessibilty Panel

To make the text larger or smaller

Click on the + or – symbols next to TEXT on the panel.

To Change Font or Background Colour

Click on the approriate colour underneath either TEXT or BACKGROUND.

To Reset font size, and colours back to original

Click on the RESET button

Using Windows Functions

To make the text larger or smaller

If you have a wheel mouse: hold down the Control key and spin the wheel to make the fonts smaller or larger (this should work on most web sites).

Or you can use Control + and Control -

Or use the zoom feature in the bottom right hand corner of IE7

Or use the View Menu/Text Size to change the size for Internet Explorer

Or use the View Menu/Zoom for Firefox - other browsers will vary

To Change Colours or Fonts

Change the browser viewing settings for text and link colors and fonts through your browser menu.

For example:

Internet Explorer Tools Menu -> Internet Options - > General Tab -> Colours/Fonts buttons. Note: you may need to change your accessibility options using the accessibility button.

Firefox Tools Menu -> Options -> Content Tab > Fonts and Colours

Access Keys

We have decided against implementing Access Keys on this web site at the moment. There is some discussion as to whether Access Keys help or hinder accessibility.

However, the TAB key can be used to navigate through the available links on a page and then press Enter to activate that link.

Changes to improve accessibility are ongoing, but if you come across a page you find difficult to use