If you need to change the size of the text or the colours on the page, most browsers will allow you to change the background and text colours (as well as the colour of hyperlinks) and to change font size. Site accessibility - bigger text and colour changes
If short-cuts are not your thing, the zoom settings are usually found in the View menu of your preferred browser. You can easily zoom in and out of the website using the scroll wheel on your mouse. Most browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera) now all support the universal keyboard short-cut for zooming whilst browsing the internet: On a Windows PC It's very simple, and all browsers share the same set of shortcuts. What you may not realise, is that you can zoom any page to your desired reading size. The optimal font size for the average viewing distance (23-28 inches from the screen) is 16 pixels, which also happens to be the default font size for modern web browsers. If you click a link and nothing happens, hold down the Ctrl key and click the link again (holding the Ctrl key overrides the pop-up blocker). If you have a pop-up blocker enabled it may prevent links to documents on our site from opening, it may also prevent links to other websites from opening. Pop-up blockers (Windows XP, Google, Yahoo and others).
