Accessibility

This web site follows the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative's (WAI) Guidelines.

Text size
 

If you want to view this Web site in a larger text size you will need to adjust your browser settings.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the 'View' menu in the browser tool bar, select 'Text size' and select required size - either larger or smaller.
If you are using Netscape Navigator, go to the 'View' menu in the browser tool bar, select 'Increase Font"'or 'Decrease Font'  until text is the required size.

Changing colours
 

Changing the site's background colour can be particularly useful if you rely on magnification technology - white can produce an uncomfortable glare. You can also change the colour of body text on the site. To do this you need to change the preferences in your browser:

If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the 'Tools' menu, select 'Internet Options', select 'Colors' and make changes to text and background colours in the Colors panel. Choose the 'Accessibility' button and tick the box labelled 'Ignore colours specified on Web'.
If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the 'Edit' menu, select 'Preferences', open the 'Appearance' menu and select 'Colors'. You can set the colour of text and background from here.

Browsealoud
 

If you have difficulty in reading on-screen text then our site has been speech-enabled for use with Browsealoud  software. This free software will 'read' our site to you.
Download the free Browsealoud software.

Access Keys

This web site supports the use of access keys, which enables the user to navigate the site using keyboard shortcuts.

Access keys defined for this site.

Viewing Portable Document Format items(PDFs) 
 

Many Culture & Sport Glasgow leaflets and application forms are available for downloading. Most of these documents are in PDF format which means they can only be viewed using Adobe Reader. This software is available free of charge from the Adobe Web site

All PDF documents on this site will open in a new Web browser window. After viewing or printing the document, you can close the new Web browser window by using the close button at the top right hand corner.

Adobe also offer other useful resources and tools to aid the accessibility of PDFs, these can be accessed via the Access Adobe website, and include an online conversion tool for PDFs.

Further information on viewing and downloading documents.

Listening to PDFs - Read Out Loud
 

The latest version of Adobe Reader (V.7), can 'read' the PDF content to you. This function is known as 'Read Out Loud' and can be accessed as follows:

With the PDF you want read to you open in Adobe Reader 7, go to the 'View' menu and select 'Read Out Loud', you will then have the option to 'Read This Page Only' or 'Read To End Of Document'.

Links to Other Web Sites
 

All links to other web sites will open in new browser windows.