The National Motor Museum Trust

The National Motor Museum Trust web site has been built with findability, accessibility and usability in mind, so we hope you can find, access and use the information you need. This page explains the accessibility features available on the web site.

You can navigate to the sections of this site using your keyboard. Available shortcuts are:

Home = 1

Visiting = 2

About us = 3

Collections = 4

Enquiries = 5

Story of motoring = 6

Learning = 7

This page = 0

To use the access keys, you press the Alt key and the number or letter above, then press Enter. On a Mac you press the Ctrl key and the number or letter.

There are some programs available which allow your computer to talk to you.

Windows users:

Windows Narrator is a basic screen-reading program, offering speech feedback for all menus and dialog boxes, Windows Explorer and Notepad but will not speak out a whole Word document or web page. There are, however, a number of text to speech programs available which enable any selected text to be spoken back to the user.

(Window's Narrator is currently only available for Windows 2000 and XP)

Mac OS:

Go to 'System Preferences' and select 'Universal Access'. From here you can turn on the text to speech function.

You can control the size of the text and change fonts if you wish. Here's how...

To change the text size in Internet Explorer (a typical Windows browser):

• Select View in the menu bar
• Select Text Size
• You'll get a list of different font (text) size options –choose the size that's appropriate for you.

To change the text size in Safari (a typical Mac OS X browser):

• Select the View menu from the Finder bar
• Select Make Text Bigger and choose the size that's appropriate for you.
• In addition to text size, the font type (i.e. Arial, Verdana, etc) is also selectable via the browser.

To display webpage text in a different font in Internet Explorer:

• Go to the Tools menu and click on Internet Options
• On the General tab, click Fonts
• In the Webpage font and Plain text font lists, click on the fonts that you want to use.

You could try magnifying the screen if increasing the text size does not make text easy to read.

Windows users:

All recent versions of Windows include magnification software. This allows you to greatly increase text size, but is restricted to a small portion of the screen.

To use Windows Magnifier click on the Start menu, then select All Programs, Accessories, Magnifier. The settings dialog box will appear; from here you can adjust the magnification as desired.

Mac OS users:

Go to System Preferences and click on Universal user. Here you can magnify the screen and have the option to turn on the text to speech function.

You can find free tools to help you create your own stylesheet on the web. By doing this you can specify the text colour, font type and size, background colours etc. to suit you. Once you have created your own stylesheet you can apply it to our website.

Internet Explorer:

Click on the Tools menu, then on Internet Options. This brings up the Internet Options dialog box. Select Accessibility to bring up the Accessibility dialog box. From here you can attach your stylesheet by ticking the checkbox next to Format documents using my style sheet. Click on the Browse button and select the stylesheet you want to use.

Opera:

Go to 'File', 'Preferences' and select 'Page Style' from the list on the left hand side. From the drop down menu next to 'Default Mode', select 'User Mode' from the list. Click on the 'Choose' button under 'My Stylesheet' to find your stylesheet and attach it.

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