Infobase

If you have difficulty reading the Infobase website on your screen, you can improve visibility in a number of ways:

• Increase font size
• Browser recommendations

 

Increase Font size:

Change your default font and size to one that suits you. Infobase recommends:

• Small Sans Serif
• Large Sans Serif
• Large Serif
• Browser Default Size

Increase Font Size Using Your Browser

Modern standards-compliant browsers also allow you to easily increase the font sizing from the view menu, the keyboard or even the mouse by simply selecting the command to increase or decrease font size. The Opera browser can scale the entire webpage - fonts, images and all.

Internet Explorer (any) and Netscape Navigator (4.7 or prior) will only allow font sizing if you switch your stylesheet to the "Browser Default Sizing" listed above. Again this does not affect the toolbar.

Browser Recommendations:

Upgrade your browser

So that you get the most from our website - and the web in general - we recommend that Microsoft Internet Explorer users upgrade their browsers to Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 6 offers enhanced privacy features and provides a more flexible and reliable browsing experience. It is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME), Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows NT® with Service Pack 6a or later.

You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer 6 at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

While Infobase does its best to support users with older browsers, the reality is that  our 'Database Enquiries' require the use of modern standards-compliant browsers which have both JavaScript and cookies enabled.

There are now several excellent browsers to choose from apart from Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and many of these alternate browsers are designed to run on older class Pentiums or Macs. For more information on standards compliant browsers visit The Web Standards Project or the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Users with visual impairments

For users with visual impairments, accessibility issues or even users who wear glasses for reading, we highly recommend the use of the Opera web browser. It has some excellent accessibility features, the most notable of which is the ability to easily scale both the text and graphics for entire web pages. It does carry small banner ads in its toolbar, the removal of which requires a registration fee.

Infobase recommends and supports the use of Internet Explorer, to which all of our web pages conform.

Free downloads of the following browsers are available at these URLs:

• for Windows
  • Opera (An excellent alternative, with great accessibility features including full page scaling. Works with all online resources. Fast.)
  • Mozilla (A very rich browser. Fully standards compliant. Requires some degree of computer savvy for some pluggins and features.)
  • Netscape Navigator (A great improvement over Netscape 6 and MSIE 6. Works with all online resources.)
  • Internet Explorer (Very solid browser. Works with all online resources. Considered standard. Limited CSS.)
  • Phoenix (Not for the faint of heart. Fast and very compact footprint.)
• for Macintosh
  • Opera (An excellent alternative, with great accessibility features including full page scaling. Works with all online resources. Fast.)
  • Netscape Navigator (A great improvement over Netscape 6 and MSIE 6. Works with all online resources.)
  • Safari (A very solid browser and fast. Appears to be the new standard Macintosh browser replacing IE but only for Macintosh OS X.)
  • Internet Explorer (A fairly solid browser. Works with all online resources. HOWEVER, Microsoft is no longer supporting or developing it.)
  • Camino (Mozilla flavour for the Macintosh. Still very beta.)

This is by no means an exhaustive list.