Accessibility

This site has been developed to be legible to as wide an audience as possible. If you are experiencing problems with legibility, or you find that this site is difficult to read, you can increase the text size in your browser settings or contact Scotcash on 0141 276 0525.

For example if you are using Internet Explorer, go to View > Text size and then select an appropriate text size (e.g. Larger or Largest).


Controlling text and colours in your web browser

You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours and foreground and background colours of web pages displayed on your computer screen. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.

If you use Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet, the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen.


Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC

  • open your Internet Explorer web browser
  • Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
  • From the options which appear, select 'Internet Options...'
  • Click on the 'General' tab
  • Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
  • To change your font size, select the checkbox '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 (and again if necessary)


To change the text size of copy on your screen

  • Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window
  • From the options which appear, select 'Text size'
  • Select your desired text size


Instructions for Netscape users

  • Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and 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'


Colours

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'preferences'

  • Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colours' category
  • Select a colour button to change colours of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links.
  • To override the colours used by the designer of the web page, select 'Always use my colours, overriding document'
  • Click 'OK'


Help with downloads

We currently use PDF files on our website. These files, and the software programmes you'll need to open them are detailed below. If you need further assistance please contact the Scotcash office.


Documents

All of the downloadable documents on the Scotcash website are in PDF format.

To view a PDF document you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.co.uk/.

 

Further information on the accessibility of PDF documents can be found at access.adobe.com/.

If you still have questions or problems with the site, not answered or supported here, please get in contact with us, and we'll do our best to help out.


Adobe Acrobat and PDF files

Adobe Acrobat is a popular document exchange medium. It works on the principle that documents produced in most software packages can be transformed into a .pdf file (the Adobe Acrobat format) and then read by the free reader package available from Adobe called Adobe Acrobat Reader. A key advantage is that it preserves all the formatting of the original file, including images, font and layout.

To read the documents you must first download the reader software from the Adobe Website


Adobe Acrobat reader as a helper application

You can add Acrobat Reader as a helper application to your browser so that it will launch automatically when you try to access a pdf file online.


Access Adobe

If you have a visual impairment you can find more information on accessibility and PDF files by visiting the Access Adobe Website