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Website Accessibility Tools

Microsoft Windows users

Microsoft has inbuilt features, to aid accessibility: Select 'All Programs' and 'Accessories' and 'Accessibility' to find the options.

Slight visual impairment

For those with a slight visual impairment, the 'Magnifier' option in Microsoft Windows may be useful, to enlarge text size. Microsoft 'Narrator' is a basic screen reader that may also be of use. Be aware that it can only be used in certain programs and will only read in English.

For those with Vista, click here for accessibility demos.

You can view a short video: 'How to resize text on web pages' using Internet Explorer.

Linux, Mac and Apple users

The BBC My Web My Way site gives information on web accessibility for Linux users and Mac users. Apple users can visit the Apple Accessibility pages.

Using Adobe’s Acrobat’s ‘Read Out Loud’

This screen reading tool can be used to convert written text into audio format.

Example - To read a College prospectus:

  1. Select ‘Download prospectus’ (as pdf) from the relevant page on the website.
  2. Save as an ‘Adobe pdf file’ on your computer.
  3. Open the file with ‘Adobe Reader’.
  4. Select ‘View’ from the top tool bar.
  5. Select ‘Read Out Loud’, then ‘Activate Read Out Loud’.
  6. Start using as required. You may wish to use headphones to listen.

Page last updated 7/22/2010

"I recommend RACL because it offers so many prospects to students in any study field, be it internships found with the help of Careers & Placement Centre or study abroad to other campuses that offer a wider variety of courses in a certain field of interest to the student. I felt really welcome by staff as well as by my teachers and tutors. The professors are very dedicated to what they do and try their best to get to know their students. Unlike big universities, the environment in RACL allows students to know people from different cultural backgrounds, better. I have found this college to be a big melting pot where you meet people from all over the world."

Diana Grigorescu

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