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Our website is designed to be easy to use, and accessible to as many people as possible. However, some people might prefer something a little different, for instance, if you have poor vision, you might prefer a larger font-size. Our website is flexible enough to accommodate most common requests.

Font size

Is the text on this website too small or large for you? Unlike many other websites, we use your preferred font size by default — if the text on this website is not the size you would prefer, you can reconfigure your browser to show text at a larger size. You can find this option in the View menu of most browsers.

Keyboard Navigation

For people who prefer to use the keyboard rather than the mouse, a few accesskeys have been implemented on this website:

Accesskey + 0
Takes you to this page (help)
Accesskey + 9
Takes you to the homepage
Accesskey + 1
Will take you to the first field of the first form on the page
Accesskey + 2
Will take you to the first field of the second form on the page
Accesskey + 3-8
Will take you to subsequent forms

Your Accesskey varies depending on which browser and platform you are using, but it is usually the Alt key.

In addition, the order in which you tab through links is consistent throughout the whole website. Initially, the focus moves from the main Foray logo (which will always take you back to the homepage), through the navigation bar, to the main content area from top to bottom, finally moving through the sidebar on the right.

Alternative Layouts / Colour Schemes

In some circumstances, it may be easier to read a plainer page, or a page with a different colour scheme. We have supplied two alternative stylesheets for this situation, one is a plainer, linear page that is mostly black text on a white background, and the other is similar, but with white text on a black background.

If you would like to use one of these stylesheets in preference to the default design of our website, you need to be using a web browser that supports alternate stylesheets. Our website should also be completely usable when stylesheets are switched off altogether.

→ Why did we do this?

Making a website accessible to people with unusual needs is overlooked by many web development agencies. This isn't a very smart thing to do.

You see, making a website easier to use isn't very difficult at all. The basic technologies necessary are already built into the World-Wide Web, and it's only due to ignorance that the average developer doesn't use them.

Making a website more accessible usually has advantages of its own. For example, some of your most important visitors are completely blind. These visitors are the programs that search engines use to crawl websites. If they can't understand your page, then you aren't likely to get ranked very highly in search engines. On the flip side, if you don't make your website accessible, you may be facing harsh penalties under the DDA if you are in the UK, or the equivalent laws in other countries.

We follow established best practices for constructing accessible websites, and conform with industry standards wherever possible.