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Accessibility

South Yorkshire Pensions Authority (SYPA) is committed to complying with the Disability Discrimination Act and have made significant improvements to our website in order to reduce the barriers experienced by people with disabilities. In accordance with central Government guidelines it is SYPA's policy to create pages to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 2 level.  We have ran extensive testing using www.contentquality.com to validate our web pages, so they are accessible for the browsers that this website supports. If you find any of our pages inaccessible to you please use the website comments contact form to let us know (including details of the technology you are using) and we will make every reasonable effort to either remove the barrier or provide the information in a format that you find acceptable.

Access keys

If you have difficulty using a mouse or similar devices, you can use keyboard shortcuts. SYPA follows the Government access key system. This enables you to navigate using only the keyboard. The accesskey feature is available in the latest browsers. If your browser does not support these features please see the technical information which provides links to the latest browser downloads.

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How do I use the access keys for my browser?

Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the required access key, then press ENTER.

Internet Explorer 4: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the required access key.

Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac: Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the required access key.

Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac: Access keys are not supported.

Netscape 6+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the required access key.

Netscape earlier versions: Access keys are not supported.

Mozilla FireFox 1: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the required access key.

Mozilla Firefox 2+: Hold down Shift + Alt and then select the number/letter of the required access key

Page Tools

Page Tools can be found at the top right of each page and can be used as follows:

Email page to a friend. By selecting this a user can send their colleagues an email a link.
Printer Friendly. Although not strictly text-only, these pages are quicker loading and useful if you do not need the images or if you are on a slow connection.
Bookmark this page. A stored web page address (URL) that you can go to easily by clicking a bookmark icon in the Bookmarks Toolbar or choosing the bookmark's name from the Bookmarks menu.
Decrease Text size. Displays the text on the web page one size smaller.
Increase Text Size. Displays the text on the web page one size larger.

Accessible Options

Here you can specify foreground and background colour combinations, providing sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits.
If the text on a web page is too small or too large, you can change it to a more comfortable size, by choosing one of the Abc options

Resizing text

The following information gives instructions to enable you to enlarge the size of the text and change the colours on your screen. If you still find the text difficult to read then further inoformation is available from the Royal National Institute of the Blind website, it contains useful information on how to access the web using different technologies.

Microsoft Internet Explorer - PC Instructions

• Open your Internet Explorer Browser
• From the 'Tools' menu at the top of the screen select 'Internet options'
• Then click on the 'General' tab
• Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
• To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'
• To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'
• Click 'OK', then 'OK' again
• From the 'View' menu at the top of your sreen, select 'Text size'.
• From the list select the required text size

Netscape Navigator prior to version 6 - To change the text size

• From the 'Edit' menu at the top of your screen, choose 'Preferences'
• Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category
• Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size' select 18
• Next to the Variable Width Font field is a drop down box: select 'Arial'.
• The Fixed Width Font box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18
• To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'
• Click 'OK'

Netscape Navigator prior to version 6 - To change the page colours

• From the 'Edit' menu at the top of the screen, choose 'Preferences'
• Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category
• Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links
• To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my colours, overriding document' option.
• Click 'OK'

Netscape Navigator prior to version 6 - To change the text size

• From the 'Edit' menu at the top of the screen, choose 'Preferences'
• Open the Appearance group and click the Fonts category
• Next to 'Fonts for:' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use.
• Next to the 'Proportional' field is a drop down box: select 'Sans-serif'. For the size select 18.
• Next to the 'Monospace' field, the box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.
• In the 'Minimum font size' box select size 18.
• Deselect the 'Allow documents to use other fonts' checkbox so no tick shows by clicking on it.
• Click 'OK'

Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator version 6 and later - To change the page colours

• From the 'Edit' menu at the top of the screen, choose 'Preferences'
• Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category
• Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links
• To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image chosen' option.
• Click 'OK'

Apple Mac Instructions

• Open your Internet Explorer Browser
• From the 'Edit' menu at the top of your screen select 'Preference'
• Then click on 'web content'
• Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'
• Return to the list of preferences
• Click on 'web browser'
• Select 'language/fonts'
• Select the required font size

All other browsers should be able to resize the text directly from the menu bar. Please see your specific browser help pages if you are having difficulty.