Brunel's ss Great Britain

The design of our website includes a number of accessibility features including:

• The ability to adjust text sizes.
• Alternative texts for images.
• The use of cascading style sheets.
• Access keys.

Increasing text size

On every page there is a shortcut to increase the text size (see the four As on the top left of the screen), or alternatively select ‘text only’ to remove all images from the site (see image below).

You can change the text size by using your Internet browser menu (NB the default size for most browsers is "medium" or " 100%"). Please see instructions below.

Internet Explorer v7.0:

   1. Select the ‘Page’ menu.
   2. Select ‘Text Size’.
   3. Select ‘Largest’, ‘Larger’, ‘Medium’, ‘Smaller’, or ‘Smallest’ text size.

Internet Explorer v6.0:

   1. Select the ‘View’ menu.
   2. Select ‘Text Size’.
   3. Select ‘Largest’, ‘Larger’, ‘Medium’, ‘Smaller’, or ‘Smallest’ text size.

[Screen shot showing how to change text size in Internet Explorer v6]

Firefox v1.5+:

   1. Select the ‘View’ menu.
   2. Select the ‘Text Size’ option.
   3. Select ‘Increase’ or ‘Decrease’ to select your desired text size.
   4. Alternatively, select and hold the 'Ctrl' button on your keyboard and use ' + ' to increase the text size or ' - ' to decrease the text size. 'Ctrl' and '0' returns the text to the default size.

Netscape in Netscape v6.0+:

   1. Select the ‘View’ menu on your browser.
   2. Scroll to ‘Text Zoom’.
   3. Select the desired text size.

Alternative texts for images

If you hover the cursor over an image on this website, you will see a text description.
This is to provide further detail about an image, enhance access, and to provide information if you are surfing the web with the graphics turned off, or with text-only browsers.

The use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

CSS allows a website to display information in a number of different ways, enhancing the accessibility of the content. 

It allows content to be displayed for different reading methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices.

This website provides the following style sheets:

• Style sheet for standard web browsers.
• A text-only style sheet, which is easier to view on small screens e.g. PDAs & mobile phones.
• A print style sheet that presents the pages in a printer-friendly version.

Access keys

The access keys associated with this website are:

• s : go to the search box at the top of the page.
• t : go to the text only version of the page.
• a: go to the 'about us' page.
• c: go to the 'contact' page.
• l: logout.

The following keys are assigned to items in the main menu:

• 0: Visit Us.
• 1: What's On.
• 2: Venue Hire.
• 3: Shop (when available).
• 4: Discover & Learn.
• 5: History & Collections.
• 6: News.
• 7: Support Us.

The information below outlines how to use the access keys in your browser:

Further help

If you have any further questions regarding your visit, please consult our FAQ’s or alternatively contact us.