Riverside in North East - Accessibility

Text Size

To increase (or decrease) the font size when viewing a web page in Internet Explorer, go to the View menu and select the Text Size option. This will open up a sub menu with a small range of size options for the text.


Quick Tip: If using Internet Explorer 5+ on a PC with a 'mouse wheel', holding down the Control key and scrolling the wheel increases and decreases text size.

Font style

Select the 'Tools' menu within your Internet Explorer browser

Select 'Internet Options' from the Tools menu

Click on the 'General' tab

Click on the 'Fonts…' button

Change your font using the 'Web page font' drop down

Click on the 'OK' button on this tab and then on the 'OK' button on the Internet Options tab

Font and Background colour

Select the 'Tools' menu within your Internet Explorer browser

Select 'Internet Options' from the Tools menu

Click on the 'General' tab

Click on the 'Colors…' button

Check the box next to 'Use Windows colors', allowing you access to change the colours yourself

Select your own Text, Background and link colours from those available

Click on the 'OK' button on this tab and on the 'OK' button on the Internet Options tab

In January 2007 the Riverside Group became the first national housing company to gain the See it Right Accreditation from the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
The See it Right accessible website logo is awarded to websites that the RNIB have audited according to the See it Right checkpoints. These checkpoints are taken from the WAI (Website Accessibility Initiative) guidelines which are the definitive international guidelines for building accessible websites. The See it Right accessible website logo represents a website's commitment to best practice website accessibility. A website is considered 'accessible' if anyone can use it regardless of their abilities or the technology they use.

The WAI guidelines are the globally accepted standard for website accessibility.

If you have any comments about the website please email: website@riverside.org.uk