Accessibility
At Mylor Yacht Harbour our aim is to make our website as accessible as possible to the widest range of visitors and customers. Communicating as effectively as possible is paramount for us.
This means considering the specific needs of those with visual or physical impairments, learning difficulties and other forms of disability. In addition it means having an understanding of different browser technologies.
We support the principles of the 'Disability Discrimination Act' (1995) and are committed to recognising and responding to the needs of all disabled people.
Web Content Accessibility
This site is produced to meet current best practices and guidelines and meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to Level A standard.
Although we continue to test and modify our websites for accessibility, there may be some legacy pages and pages developed by third-parties that are not fully compliant with our standards. If you would like further information about our accessibility standards or have problems accessing this website, please contact us.
Browse Aloud - Speech Enabling
Additional Information
You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours, and foreground and background colours of web pages displayed on your computer, even if the person creating the web page has already specified these. You can also set the colour you would like to indicate links in web pages.
This could be useful if you have impaired vision or find certain colours or contrasts easier to read.
You can set Internet Explorer to use the fonts and colours of your choice, or to use the Windows 'default' colours and fonts.
The information below will take you through step-by-step guidelines for adjusting text sizes and colours on your screen:
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
- Open Internet Explorer Web Browser
- Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options which appear, select 'Internet options...'.
- Click the 'General' tab
- Click the button marked 'Accessibility'
- To change the font size, tick the checkbox labelled 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'
- To remove background and font colours, tick the checkbox labelled 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'
- Click OK (and again if necessary)
- Select 'View' from the menu at the top of the window
- Select 'Text Size'
- Select desired text size
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Mac
- Open Internet Explorer Web Browser.
- Select the "edit" menu at the top of the window.
- From the options menu which appears, select "preferences".
- Click "web content"
- Deselect the button labelled "show style sheets"
- Return to the list of preferences
- Click on "web browser"
- Select "language/fonts"
- Select the font size you require
Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator Text:
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
- Open the Appearance group and click on 'Fonts' category
- Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. Select 18 from 'size'
- Next to the Variable Width Font field there is a drop down box - select 'Arial'. The Fixed Width Font box should read 'Courier New' - select 18 from 'size'
- To override the fonts used by the web page author, select 'use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'
- Click on 'OK'
Downloadable Documents
A number of downloadable documents available within this site are in Portable Document Format (often referred to as PDF). In order to view a PDF document, you need free software called Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from the Adobe web site by following the link below
If you use a screen reading program which synthesizes text as audible speech you may experience difficulty reading PDF files. The Access Adobe web site provides online tools to convert PDF documents into standard HTML or ASCII text. The site can be visited via the link below:
