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Accessibility

Renishaw wants its website to be as easy to use as possible and available to people with physical disabilities. This page describes practical steps you can take that may help to improve your experience of our site.

Making text larger

You can increase the size of text on your browser in the following ways:

Adjust font sizing in your browser

  • Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 6 [running on Microsoft™ Windows XP]
    • Select 'View' > 'Text size'
    • Choose a suitable size.
    • Text on our site will scale to match the change.
  • Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 7 [running on Microsoft™ Windows XP]
    • Select 'View' > 'Text size', or 'Page' > 'Text size'
    • Choose a suitable size.
    • Text on our site will scale to match the change.
  • Firefox 2 and 3 [running on Microsoft™ Windows XP]
    • Press 'Ctrl' and '+'.
    • Text on our site will scale to match the change.

Changing the size and the resolution of your screen

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher [running on Microsoft™ Windows XP]
    • Select 'Start' - 'Settings' - 'Control panel'.
    • Select 'Display.
    • Select 'Settings' tab.
    • Under desktop area select and move the slider to the left.
    • Note: moving the slider to the left decreases screen resolution, moving the slider to the right increases screen resolution.
    • Click OK to close.

Talking browsers

Software is available that can 'speak' web page content. Please go to the R.N.I.B. site for more information.

Two examples of talking browsers are:

Note: Renishaw do not specifically recommend either product and users elect to use any such products entirely at their own risk.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards

Renishaw do:

  • Provide descriptive text of significant images.
  • Provide scalable fonts
  • Avoid the use of FRAMES which are difficult for special browsers to interpret.
  • Provide text descriptions of multimedia content on our site.
  • Use descriptive link titles

Here to help

We hope this page will assist you in using our website to its best advantage.
If you have any queries, or require further information, about Renishaw.com, please contact us.

Next steps

Contact us online if you require more information or you have a pricing query, or alternatively you may like to speak directly to your local Renishaw office.