Viewing This Site

Dealing With Site Display Issues

Display Issues - Changing Font Sizes & Colours

This page is a general introduction to the CAA site layout and design considerations. If you are looking for a specific item on this site, the CAA Site Search and Site Contents Index pages will be more useful to you.

Display Issues

Any Current Browser Works

Content on this site is designed to work with any current browser. Support for older browsers is deprecated.

Valid Site Coding

All pages have been checked and found to be valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and valid CSS using W3C's Validator services:

Different Browsers—Different Experiences

Please be aware that pages view differently in different browsers. This site has been designed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1 and CSS2) for layout and works best when the browser conforms to Web standards.

Firefox Recommended

Firefox most closely follows these standards at the time of the site design. Internet Explorer 6 does not follow a number of these recommendations, although these standards are more closely followed by Internet Explorer 7. Other browsers also vary in their conformation to standards.

While these standards are not infallible, they help in ensuring that changes in technology do not degrade your experience on this site and avoid restricting the viewer to one browser because of proprietary markup tags.

Changing Fonts Sizes & Colours

This site design is created with browser sizing at 800x600 and care has been taken to choose colours that are cross-platform compatible. Font sizes are specified in ems to give the view the greatest flexibility (rather than fixed in points, a static print medium).

Current browsers (Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Internet Explorer) offer a great deal of flexibility in changing these settings to suit your needs and preferences. I would suggest altering text size or colour settings to enhance your experience on this (and other) sites if you have special requirements.

Text May Be Enlarged/Reduced

Text sizes may be increased/decreased in modern browsers if you have difficulty viewing the default sizes or if the default sizing doesn't work for you. This function varies by browser but is usually located in the View menu:

Internet Explorer: View > Text Size.
Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox: View > Text Zoom.
Opera: View > Zoom.
Safari: View > Make Text Bigger / Make Text Smaller.
Maxthon: View > Zoom Page.
Netscape 4: View > Increase Text / Decrease Text.

Extreme Increase May Create Problems

Note: extreme increases in size may create problems with the page layout. Images do not resize and there are limits to how much room there is on the menu for the increase in text sizes.

Customizing Colour Settings

Issues With Contrast

Some viewers may find that there is insufficient contrast for comfortable viewing. This can be altered within your browser.

Changing Browser Settings

If you are having difficulty viewing this site, please change the sizing of the fonts (see resizing text above) or change your browser's default settings to view the page with fonts and colours that work for you:

Internet Explorer 7: Tools > Internet Options and click on the buttons in the Appearance category on the General tab.
Firefox: Tools > Options and select Fonts & Colors on the Content tab.
Opera: Tools > Preferences and select the Web pages tab.
Safari: Edit > Preferences and select Fonts in the Appearance category (there are no settings for colour, although you can specify a personal style sheet).
Internet Explorer 6/Maxthon: Tools > Internet Options and click on the Accessibility button.
Netscape/Mozilla: Edit > Preferences and select Colors in the Appearance category.

Additional settings may be found under Advanced, Accessibility or elsewhere, depending upon the browser you are using. Your browser's help menu will give you more information about how to use these features effectively.

Older Browsers May Not Display Correctly

Unfortunately, some content on this site may not display properly in older browsers that do not recognize or correctly interpret style sheets. Since style sheets are used both for layout and esthetics, this will necessarily degrade your user experience when viewing this site with an older browser. This problem should affect less than 5 percent of the browsers currently in use.

Content should be visible, but may be portrayed in your browser's default fonts and may be placed incorrectly. There may also be unintended side effects like visible borders around linked images (a result of changing Web standards). This affects primarily Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4 and their earlier versions.

To view this site properly, you may wish to upgrade to a newer browser. Current versions of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer will work best.

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