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This site presents information about services for people with a learning disability and/or with a physical or sensory impairment in Fife in a format accessible to the greatest number of potential users. Should you have difficulties navigating or reading this site, we would welcome your constructive feedback. Just e-mail us at info@fifeadultdayservices.org.uk.

Graphics and Text

The main interface combines text, menus and graphics to guide visitors around the site. However, some users may prefer a text-only interface as it downloads faster and is more compatible with screen-readers used by many with sensory impairments. Visitors can easily switch from the default graphics-enhanced to the text-only interface either by clicking text-only or graphics-enhanced or by using the keyboard shortcut Alt or Control (Mac) + Z. This works throughout the site, but please note the Virtual Tours, Art With a Passion and Quest Theatre Company sections rely heavily on graphics.

Text Size

Use the -, = and + signs at the top left next to the Text-only selector to make the standard text size smaller than, the same as or larger than the default size. These settings complement your browser's text-size or zoom controls described below.

Designing a Website to enable users to resize text to suit their monitor and eyesight is probably the single most important accessibility feature.

Hiding and Showing Menus

If you select a larger text-size or are using a small monitor, you may wish to hide menus for on-screen reading. In the graphics-enhanced interface the main left side menu can be collapsed and expanded at any time by clicking on Hide or Show Menu icons on the right border of the menu. Press Alt/Control(Mac) +M to hide or show the menu. This setting will be stored if you navigate onto other pages.

Browser Compatibility

This site has been tested on Internet Explorer 5, 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers), Safari on the Mac, Konqueror (Linux) and Opera 7+ catering for over 99% of users. As this section uses stylesheets for layout and formatting, it will not display correctly in Netscape 4.7, Internet Explorer 4.0 or earlier versions. The borders on some rollover buttons will not appear in IE 5.5 or earlier. We recommend users of older browsers download a newer edition, if possible, or switch to our text-only section. This approach helps us to separate style from content and ensure compatibility with future web standards.

Screen Area

The main graphics-enhanced and text-only sections both stretch to fill the browser window up to a maximum width of 1024 pixels. The graphics section is designed for a minimum screen area of 800x600 pixels. Below this resolution the header is not entirely visible. The text-only interface is designed for a minimum screen area 640x480.

Search Facility

The site comprises a full text search facility. You may search one or more words with the following options:

1. All words: if you enter more than one word, all whole words must occur in the text, but not necessarily in the typed order, e.g. football team will match a sentence such as "The team played football", but not texts that only contain football or team or partial matches such as "footballers played for the team".
2. Any words: If you enter more than one word, this option is likely to increase the number of matches, e.g. football team may return an article that includes the word team, but has nothing to do with football.
3. Exact phrase: This search mode matches the exact sequence of letters and requires at least 4 letters. Unlike the other search modes it will match partial words, e.g. football will match "footballers", but football team will not match "the team played football"

Printing

All pages have a print-this-page icon. Click on this icon to print the main body of text without the header, side menu or footer with black text on a white background. Related links and articles will also be excluded.

All pages have a special print stylesheet, recognised by the latest browsers (IE 6.0+ and Mozilla 1.2+, Safari and Opera 6.0+), which will achieve the same effect if you click on the toolbar print icon or select print from the file menu. To print text only (i.e. without foreground graphics), switch to text-only mode first and refresh (reload) the page if you were previously in graphics mode.

Some Printing Tips

1. To ensure best results, select Print Preview from the File menu first!
2. Customise the header and footer print options from Page Setup accessible from the File menu or print preview dialogue window. By default most browsers will print the page title, number, web address and date. View Internet Explorer Print Options »
   

   IE 6.0+ Header and Footer Print Options

   &w	Window title	&u	Page address (URL)
   &d	Date in short format	&D	Date in long format
   &t	Time in default format	&T	Time in 24-hour format
   &p	Current page number	&P	Total number of pages
   &b	Right-aligned text (following &b)	&b&b	Centered text (between &b and &b)

   1. To remove both the header and footer simply delete all codes frpm the header and footer fields
   2. To print only the page number, leave the header field blank and type the following code into the footer field: &b&p of &P &b, where &b centre-aligns the enclosed code, &p stands for the current page and &P the total number number of pages.

   

   NB: Some versions of Internet Explorer have problems aligning pictures with wrapping text in portrait mode.

Screen Readers: Text-to-Speech Software Compatibility

This site is fully compatible with screen readers or speech synthesisers that reproduce text as speech such as the speech tools integrated into Mac OS X (Apple Menu > Speech) and Windows Vista. Users of Windows XP may consider TextAloud available for a trial download and Linux Users can download Festival, developed by the University of Edinburgh. This feature is of particular interest to people with visual impairments, reading difficulties or wish to surf the web via mobile devices. The site features an aural stylesheet instructing the screen reader how to emphasise or whether to read text. You may find it more convenient just to highlight the text you would like to listen to and then activate the read control.

• Voiceover on Mac OS X Tiger
• Narrator text-to-speech tool in Windows Vista

Keyboard Accessibility

The site is easy to navigate with a standard keyboard using IE 6.0+, Mozilla 1.0+ (Firefox, Camino, Netscape 6.0+ etc.) and Safari. Simple combinations of Alt key (Control key on the Mac) with a number or letter help you navigate between the main sections of the site.

NB: If Javascript is disabled (it is enabled by default in most modern browsers), the access keys will not work automatically in Internet Explorer (i.e. you'll need to press Enter after the access key) and the pop-up menus and the print this page button will not work at all.

Flash Player

The Art With a Passion Slide Shows, Virtual Tours, Complaints Procedure Presentation and three games require Adobe Flash Player 6.0. This is often, but not always, pre-installed on your computer. Should you experience any problems, download an updated Flash Player from the Adobe Flash Player download site. Online installation usually takes 5 minutes with a 56K modem.

PDF Files

Some documents with special formatting such as newsletters are made available as PDF (Portable Document Format) files that require Adobe (Acrobat) Reader or other PDF Viewers such as Preview preinstalled on Mac OS X or KPDF Viewer on Linux. Adobe Reader can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe Reader Download.

As PDF documents replace the main interface of the Web site, they will open in a new window or in a new tab within the same window if using IE7 and Firefox 2 for Windows. After reading and/or saving the file, close the new window or tab (if using IE7 or Firefox) and switch back to the window with the Fife Supported Living Services site.

Audio Clips

Sound clips in the mp3 format can be accessed in two ways on most systems. Clicking on the media player controls will stream the sound clip, begnning to play before the whole file has downloaded.

	In Internet Explorer for Windows, this will play via an embedded instance of Windows Media Player.
	Most other modern browsers will display the default media player controls (e.g. Real Player or Quick Time), depending on your computer's operating system and settings. Opera will play the audio in the background simply by clicking on the loudspeaker, but if it identifies as IE (Tools > Quick Preferences), it will also display a small box with the contents of the WMX file used by IE to stream media files.
	Clicking on the loudspeaker will download the mp3 audio file directly and then play it in a media player of your choice. In Opera it should play in the background.

Video Clips

Video clips require either Windows Media Player 8+* or Real Player 8+*. The former is pre-installed in Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP but also available for Mac OS X and is the default for Internet Explorer users while the latter can be downloaded from Real Player* and is the default for users of Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Safari. If you have earlier versions of these media players, you may be prompted to upgrade to the latest version.

A full listing of all clips is available in the Video Gallery

High-definition video clips, in the mpeg format, require a fast broadband connection over 1MBps, ideally over 2MBps. These should stream if you have Quick Time 6+, Windows Media Player 9+ or Real Player 9+, but may cause a short delay before starting. Do not attempt to play these high-definition videos if you have a slow connection, are sharing resources via an office network or have outdated hardware or software!

No videos on this site are embedded, but exactly how they play depends largely your installed software and system configuration, e.g. Windows Media Player may open in the side bar within Internet Explorer while Quick Time takes over the browser window in Firefox or Safari.

* Windows Media videos play via WMX data files, which are only recognised in Internet Explorer, but will play in Quick Time with the Flip4Mac plug-in. Likewise, Real Media videos use RAM data files which will only stream if you have Real Player installed on your system. The actual movie files have the same name but end in either .wmv (Windows Media) or .rm (Real Media). Real Media videos are optimised to play at lower quality on slower connections and will also let you skip to any segment while streaming.

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