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Every effort has been made to ensure that this website reaches A standard accessibility according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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General Web Accessibility Information

There are many tools that people with a disability can use to assist to access the internet. These tools are either hardware or software.

Hardware

These tools manipulate the keyboard or mouse, because the person with a disability cannot use them. Examples are:

Software

These tools change how a user interacts with the site. Examples are:

  • Screen readers - Programs such as JAWS and Window-Eyes that convert a web site into a Braille display or read it in audio for people who are blind, visually impaired or have dyslexia.
  • Screen Magnifiers - Programs that magnify sections of the screen for people with vision impairments. See Windows Screen Magnifier.
  • Oversized cursors - Large cursors for people with vision impairments. See 'Biggy' cursors.
  • Onscreen keyboards - Keyboards for people with motor disabilities used in combination with switching devices. See On-screen keyboard.
  • Programs that slow down applications for people with motor disabilities, for example CPU Killer (for Windows).

General Browser Shortcuts

The keyboard shortcuts provided below apply to Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox.

The following keyboard shortcut forms are used throughout the lists below: Ctrl=Control; Esc=Escape; Alt=Alternative; Del= Delete; UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT =Arrow keys.

Where available, the key combinations for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems have been provided.

 

 Command   Internet Explorer     Firefox Opera 
Add Bookmark  Ctrl/Cmd+D  Ctrl/Cmd+D  Ctrl/Cmd+T
Back

 Backspace
Alt/Option+<-

  Backspace (Win/Linux)
Alt+<- (Win/Linux)
Cmd+<- (Mac)  		    Backspace (Win/Linux)
Alt+<- (Win/Linux)
Cmd+<- (Mac)    Backspace
Alt/Option+<-
Ctrl/Cmd+<-
Z
Bookmarks    Ctrl/Cmd+I Ctrl/Cmd+B
Ctrl+I (Win)		  F4
Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+B
Ctrl/Cmd+1
Caret Browsing     F7    
Close Tab    Ctrl/Cmd+W
Ctrl/Cmd+F4  		 Ctrl/Cmd+W
Ctrl/Cmd+F4
Close Window Ctrl/Cmd+W
Alt/Option+F4 		 Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+W
Alt/Option+F4		 Ctrl/Cmd+W
Alt/Option+F4
Copy Ctrl/Cmd+C Ctrl/Cmd+C Ctrl/Cmd+C
Cut Ctrl/Cmd+X  Ctrl/Cmd+X Ctrl/Cmd+X
Decrease text size   Ctrl/Cmd+-  9
Delete Del  Del  Del 
Delete individual form auto-complete entry Del  Shift+Del    
DOM inspector  Ctrl+Shift+I (Win/Linux)      
Downloads    Ctrl+J (Win)
Ctrl+Y (Linux)
Cmd+J (Mac) 		 Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+T
Ctrl/Cmd+5
Find again   Ctrl/Cmd+G
F3		 F3
Find as you type link   '   ,
Shift+/
Find as you type text  

  /

   /
.
Find previous    Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G
Shift+F3		 Shift+F3
Find in this page Ctrl/Cmd+F Ctrl/Cmd+F Ctrl/Cmd+F
Forward  Shift+Backspace
Alt/Option+->		 Shift+Backspace
Alt/Option+-> (Win/Linux)
Cmd+-> (Mac) 		 Shift+Backspace
Alt/Option+->
Ctrl/Cmd+->
X
Go down one line Down Down Down
Go up one line  Up Up Up
Go down one page PageDown PageDown PageDown
Go up one page PageUp  PageUp  PageUp 
Go to bottom of page  End End End
Go to top of page Home Home Home
Full screen F11 F11 (Win/Linux) F11
Help  F1  F1 (Win/Linux) F1 
History Ctrl/Cmd+H Ctrl/Cmd+H  Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+H
Ctrl/Cmd+4
Home page Alt/Option+Home   Alt/Option+Home Alt/Option+Home
Increase text size   Ctrl/Cmd++  0
Move to next frame   F6  
Move to previous frame   Shift+F6    
 New tab  Ctrl/Cmd+N   Ctrl/Cmd+T    Ctrl/Cmd+N
 Next tab  Ctrl/Cmd+O Ctrl+Tab (Win/Linux)
Cmd+Opt+Tab (Mac)
Ctrl/Cmd+PageDown		 Ctrl/Cmd+Tab
Alt/Option+PageDown
Ctrl/Cmd+F6
2
 New window  Enter/Return  Ctrl/Cmd+N  Ctrl/Cmd+Alt/Option+N
 Open file    Shift+Enter/Return  Ctrl/Cmd+O  Ctrl/Cmd+O
 Open link    Enter/Return   Enter/Return 
 Open link in new tab  Ctrl/Cmd+F3  Ctrl/Cmd+Enter/Return  
 Open link in new window  Ctrl/Cmd+V   Shift+Enter/Return  Shift+Enter/Return
 Open address in new tab  Ctrl/Cmd+P  Alt/Option+Enter/Return  Shift+Enter/Return
 Page info  Ctrl/Cmd+Y  Ctrl+I (Linux)
 Cmd+I (Mac)		  Ctrl/Cmd+8
 Page source

 F5
 Ctrl/Cmd+R

  Ctrl/Cmd+U  Ctrl/Cmd+F3
 Paste  Ctrl/Cmd+F5  Ctrl/Cmd+V  Ctrl/Cmd+V
 Previous tab  Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Tab
 Ctrl/Cmd+PageUp		    Feature Not Available Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Tab
 Alt/Option+PageUp
 Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F6
1
 Print     Ctrl/Cmd+P   Ctrl/Cmd+P 
 Redo    Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z
 Ctrl+Y (Win/Linux) 		  Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z
 Ctrl+Y
 Reload  Ctrl/Cmd+A  F5
 Ctrl/Cmd+R		  F5
 Ctrl/Cmd+R
 Reload (override cache)   Alt/Option+D
 F4
 Ctrl/Cmd+Tab 		  Ctrl/Cmd+F5
 Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+R		  
 Restore text size    Ctrl/Cmd+0  6
 Save page as    Ctrl/Cmd+S  Ctrl/Cmd+S
 Save link target as     Alt/Option+Enter/Return  
 Select all     Ctrl/Cmd+A  Ctrl/Cmd+A
 Select location bar  Esc  Ctrl/Cmd+L
 Alt+D (Win/Linux)		  F8
 Select next auto-complete entry in text field  Ctrl/Cmd+Z  Down   
 Select previous auto-complete entry in text field    Up  
 Select next search engine in search bar    Ctrl/Cmd+Down  
 Select previous search engine in search bar    Ctrl/Cmd+Up  
 Select tab [1 to 9]     Ctrl+[1 to 9] (Win)
 Alt+[1 to 9] (Linux)
 Cmd+[1 to 9] (Mac) 		  

 Stop

    Esc   Esc 
 Undo    Ctrl/Cmd+Z  Ctrl/Cmd+Z

 Web Search
 (Web Search moves the cursor to the Search Bar and only works if the   Search Bar is visible. If the Search Bar is hidden, this keyboard shortcut has  no effect). 

    Ctrl/Cmd+K
 Ctrl+J (Linux) 		  Shift+F8

Shortcuts for Internet Explorer

Details of shortcuts for various versions of Internet Explorer can be obtained from the Microsoft website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449


Shortcuts for Firefox

Source: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

Display and Readability

Internet Explorer 6 includes numerous options to make things easier to see on the computer screen, or to adjust to your visual preferences including:

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie6/default.aspx

Acknowledgements
The information above has been sourced from: