A complete beginner’s guide on how to resize text. Please feel free to embed this video on any accessibility statement/help page on your site if it will help your users
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Transcript for How to Resize Text video
If you are finding it difficult to read some text when viewing a web site you can resize the text up and down to suit your needs. However, by default web browsers – for example Internet Explorer and Firefox – do not make it obvious that you can do this; effectively they hide these useful controls.
Using Internet Explorer, otherwise known as IE, you can change the font size by selecting the View menu item and then selecting the Text Size option – you have 5 size settings to pick from. This is useful to know and once you select this setting, it is remembered for all web sites that you visit.
A better option is to place a text resize control permanently on your toolbar. To do this, press your right mouse button on the toolbar area to bring up the contextual menu and choose ‘Customize’. A list of available toolbar buttons appears on the left. Scroll down to the Text icon and then select ‘Add’. You can also change the display of the icons while you’re hear, just in case you find the toolbar icons a little small too. Once you hit the close button, you’ll see a Text Size control there, making it much easier to change the size.
If you are using IE 7, the process is much the same – right click on the toolbar, but you need to select ‘Customize Command Bar’ then ‘Add or Remove Commands’
In Firefox, you can increase the font size in a similar way to Internet Explorer. Unlike IE, you are not limited to 5 sizes (that being two notches up and two notches down from the default).
Unfortunately Firefox does not provide a toolbar icon for text resizing, even if you choose to customise. However, Patrick Lauke from the University of Salford has created an extension that creates a set of buttons that you can add to your toolbar. Simply go to the Firefox Extensions page and search for the ‘Text Size Toolbar’, or go to tinyurl.com/2ztudx. Once you’ve installed the extension and restarted Firefox, right click on your toolbar and choose customise. There you will find the resize buttons which you can drag and drop on to your toolbar.
There are other ways that you can change text size on a web page. If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, simply hold down the CTRL key – or the command key if you are a Mac user – and move the scroll wheel up and down. For Firefox users, hold down the CTRL key and press the plus (+) and minus (-) keys. Finally, if you are using Internet Explorer 7, you can hold down the CTRL key and press the plus or minus keys which will zoom the whole page in and out of view.
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December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
nerd u got bullyed
nerd u got bullyed
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
cheers very helpful …
cheers very helpful, now i can sit back without going cross eyed.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Intelligent video! …
Intelligent video! Whether you are a beginning website maker or professional this information is critical. Choice of font size and font colour on your website that visitors can easily see is an important consideration. Include a link to this video on the home page of your website to spread this message of internet accessibility. mySiteWizard
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Yay! I have Opera …
Yay! I have Opera but I still found it.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Ctrl O
Ctrl O
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thanks for this. My …
Thanks for this. My text was soo tiny and I didn’t know how I did it.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thank you so much …
Thank you so much this helped me save time =]
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
assholr
assholr
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thank you!
Thank you!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thank you!!
I just …
Thank you!!
I just got my new MacBook and I accidentally made the text bigger using the keypad(i don’t know how) and it got hugeeee!! then i searched this video and i figured out how to make it smaller!!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I’m an Eskimo!!!!!! …
I’m an Eskimo!!!!!!!!!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Wow thank you!
Wow thank you!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
You’re my hero.
You’re my hero.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
thanks for this …
thanks for this video!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
yes it did work on …
yes it did work on windows xp but it isnt very exact. like it is either really big or really small
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
i know an easier …
i know an easier way
just hold ctrl and scroll your scroll on your mouse.. it might be just with vista i dont know but it changes icon sizes on your desktop.
uhmm if your on the internet do the same and u can increase the size of everything and text, buttons, icons get bigger. you can also do this on im
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
lol! im so glad i …
lol! im so glad i found this video i accidentally made stuff really small and couldnt get it back i got scared lol
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Tools>Options, have …
Tools>Options, have a dig about, its under font.. in there somewhere
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
can u change the …
can u change the font ?
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
lol ty
lol ty
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thanks!
Thanks!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
To save you …
To save you watching this whole video,
Just hold down CTRL and scroll your mouse wheel.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
ctrl+scroll wheel
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ctrl+scroll wheel
np.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Ian, this is …
Ian, this is sooooo wonderful. In this high tech industry, we so often forget that simple solutions can be amazingly powerful. Well done!
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
great video! Hope …
great video! Hope you don’t mind me referencing it within the accessibility/help pages of a few of the sites I’ve done. It’s amazing the amount of users who don’t know this stuff.