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This page contains information on facilities available from the site including methods of navigation and links to sites giving accessibility advice and information on browsing the site with screen reader equipment.

About the Site

The Women and Equality Unit website contains information, publications and statistics from Women and Equality Unit, which is part of the Department of Communities and Local Government. Further details can be found on the front page and the About the Women and Equality Unit section.

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Changes to the site

The site has been restructured around the our main areas of work. The broad headings on the front page and listed on the left-hand side links lead to subcategories which then link to information available on this site - this information is listed by further subcategories where appropriate.

There is also a site map covering all of these pages - if you can't find what you are looking for under the subject headings, please try the site map.

Other navigation options are outlined below.

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Using the Site

Site navigation

The site can be navigated in several ways:

Using the broad subject headings on the front page which then lead to more specific headings.
Using the site map which lists all of the pages on the Women and Equality Unit website.
Using the search engine - this searches across the Women and Equality Unit site. It is possible to perform advanced searches on this - please see the Advanced option on the search engine and the tips on the search page.

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Using Adobe Acrobat

Some documents in this site are stored in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). This file format is used to store complex documents such as newletters. To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed: click the link below to download the software. If you are using a screen reader please refer to the Adobe® information under Accessibility.

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Accessibility Options

There is a text resizer on the top right hand corner of the screen, which will allow you to easily set the size of the text throughout the site to one that's most suited for your individual needs.

You can also over-ride the default text size using your browser setting.

Internet Explorer

The simplest way to change the browser settings is to select Fonts from the View menu in Internet Explorer 4 or earlier or select Text Size from the View menu in Internet Explorer 5 and click on the text size you want to use.

For more control over browser setting select Internet Options from the View menu in Internet Explorer 4 or earlier or the Tools menu in Internet Explorer 5.

Internet Options allows you to changes fonts and background colours and use your own stylesheet to further customise the browser to your accessibility needs.

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Netscape

You can specify which fonts and font sizes are used to display web pages in your browser. You can also select character-set encodings.

Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Open the Appearance group and click the Fonts category.
Choose an encoding to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use
Choose your default fonts from the Variable Width Font and Fixed Width Font pop-up menus. (Fixed-width fonts are often used for filling in forms.)
Click one of the following:
- To specify that your default fonts are always used instead of the fonts chosen by a document's author, click "Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts."
- To specify that page fonts are used only when they are available without downloading (saves time), click "Use document-specified fonts, but disable Dynamic Fonts."
- To specify that page fonts are always used, click "Use document-specified fonts, including Dynamic Fonts."

If you view web pages in more than one encoding scheme (for instance, Western and Chinese), you can choose fonts and font sizes for each encoding.

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Using Adobe Acrobat

It is possible to read pdf files using the tool Access Adobe. This converts pdfs to html files. You will need to know the URL for the file that you want to read. Please visit the access.adobe.com site for further details.

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Useful Links

These links are to sites outside this website:

UK Government Disability Site - Contains full information about the Disabilities Discrimination Act, parts of which apply to the Web as from 1st October 1999.

RNIB - The RNIB is there to help not only totally blind people, but also the one and a half million in the UK with serious sight problems.

The Adobe website - to download the Acrobat reader for reading pdf files

Access Adobe - to read pdf files using a screen reader

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