Accessibility

At Alliance & Leicester we believe everyone should be able to access our products and services. We are currently improving the services we offer. If you have a particular need that we do not currently cater for, please write to us and we will do our best to help.

Website

If you want to alter the way you view this website, from the size of text to the colour of the hyperlinks, you can do so by altering some of the settings in the Internet browser.

To change settings on Internet Explorer, follow the instructions below. These setting should work on most websites but they won’t affect the images on the screen. If you are having problems changing your setting, use the Help menu in your browser toolbar of access one of the internet help files offered by the manufacturer of your browser. See Microsoft for example.

To permanently apply font and colour changes

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
• Click on the three boxes to show ticks
• Click on 'OK'

To enlarge text

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
• Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
• Click on 'OK'
• On the browser menu select 'view'
• Click 'text size'
• Choose the size of text

To change text and background colour

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the General tab, select 'Colour'
• Deselect the 'Use Windows Colours' tick box
• Select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour
• Click on 'OK'
• Select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour
• Click on 'OK'

To prevent graphics and images appearing

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the Advanced tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading
• Deselect the graphics options 'animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images' by clicking on the boxes to remove the ticks
• Click on 'Apply' then 'OK'

To change the size of the window

• On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press F11

To change the colour of links displayed on a screen

• On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
• On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
• Click on 'Select ignore colours specified on Web pages' (should contain a tick)
• Click 'OK'
• Select 'General' tab and click on 'Colours'
• Turn off the 'Use hover colours' tick box (should not contain a tick)
• Select 'Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK
• Select 'Not Visited' and choose the colour that suits you best, Click OK
• Select 'OK' for 'Colours'
• Select 'OK' for 'Internet Options'