Accessibility

Accessibility Policy

JPAF Consulting strives to adhere to accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability. It is our policy that all web users should be able to access our website. We would welcome feedback on the accessibility of our software along with recommendations on how it improvements may be made to overcome particular issues. However, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website and software. Within the support forums of this website some users might experience some difficulties accessing this part of our site. We are aware of this and are constantly seeking out solutions to bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall accessibility.

 

Accessibility features of our website

The majority of the pages on our site are set up so that you can change the colours, font style and size of text on the page to suit your visual needs.

How you do it depends on the system and web browser you are using. This is how to change the text size in the most commonly used browsers:

Change text size via browser toolbar

Internet Explorer 7

• Go to “Page” in the top bar
• Select “Text size” or “Text zoom”
• Choose the size you need.

Netscape, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 4, 5, 6

• Go to "View" in the top bar
• Select "Text Zoom" or "Text size"
• Choose the font size you need.

Safari

• Go to "View" in the top bar of the browser
• Choose "Make text bigger" or "Make text smaller" in the dropdown menu.

Using your own style sheets

You can apply your own style sheet onto this website by:

Internet Explorer

• Select Tools
• Internet Options
• Accessibility
• Click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then browse to your style sheet and click OK.

Netscape

• Select Edit
• Preferences
• Appearance.
• You will be given the choice to specify your own colours and fonts.

Using Portable Document Files ("PDFs")

Sometimes you'll find items on the website that are provided in a "PDF" format. You'll need to have Adobe Reader® - Version 5 or above on your computer to read these documents. If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can get it free from the Adobe website at: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

To read PDF documents with a screen reader you can link to the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDF documents.