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Accessibility
The colours used in this web site where chosen to be pleasing and easy on the eyes, for best viewing please make sure you have the latest browser available.
Internet Explorer 6 has many issues when used to browse this web site, some area may not work and some images might be missing. For best viewing please upgrade to a new browser
When viewing Forward MID web site some people might require to increase the size of the text to a larger size. Please follow these instructions:
Using Internet Explorer7/8: From the toolbar on the right select page, from the drop down select text size to increase text only or select page to increase size over all, select percentage to suit.
This web site uses flash and will require you to click Active X to allow it to play.To override browser settings on Internet Explorer7/8: Click the Tools icon, and then click Internet Options. Click the General tab, and then click Accessibility. Select the Ignore colors specified on web pages, Ignore font styles specified on web pages, and Ignore font sizes specified on web pages check boxes, If you have a Cascading Style sheet of your own you check the box and then browse to your own style sheet. Click OK twice.
Using Firefox: click on Tools, from drop down menu click on Options, click on Content, half way down you will see fonts & colours to change test size click advanced and set font face and font size as default, click ok, beneath the advanced select your choice of colours for background and text and also a different colour for pages you have already visited.
Using Safari: Click Edit from drop down menus select Preferences. Click Advanced. Select the checkbox to never use fonts smaller than the selected size. Choose a font size from the pop-up menu. To override all web sites Click edit from drop down menu select Preferences, click the apperance tab open the select button on standard fonts delect font face of your choice and then size click red box with white cross you can also change fixed font width below to set minimum font size and spacing
Using Google chrome: At the end of the address bar click on this symbol 
,from the drop down menu choose Zoom new menu will pop up to make Larger click larger, to make smaller click smaller. alternitivly press CTRL and + on windows or Cmd and + on a Mac
Using Opera: click on View, from drop down menu choose zoom select size as a percentage, to override default settings click View choose style from drop down menu and select mode of choice
Using Google chrome: Shift+Alt+T: Set keyboard focus on the Google Chrome toolbar. Use your right and left arrow keys to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar. F6 or Ctrl+L: Highlight the content in the web address area on the address bar.
If you wish the graphics to be hidden and only see or hear the text then you will require a text only browser. The browser is called the Lynx browser and can be downloaded free of charge at Lynx text only browser
Some file in this web site are laid out in PDF format, to have these files read out you will require the PDF aloud reader there are three versions for free download at free PDF aloud download
