This site is designed to use CSS and has been tested for compliance with WAI Content Accessibility Guidelines 1999/05/05, Support Level: A through the use of the Bobby web accessibility software tool.
If you have a problem in accessing a page on the Fisheries Research Services website please contact us: Graphics & Media
Cascading Style Sheets
All pages on this site feature CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.
The most common browsers that are known to cause trouble are:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
- Netscape Navigator 4.x
- Opera 3.5
- Any older versions of the above mentioned.
This site has been tested using:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 (MS Windows, Apple Macintosh)
- Netscape Navigator 4.7*, 7.0 (MS Windows, Apple Macintosh, Red Hat Linux)
- Safari (Apple Macintosh)
- Lynx (Red Hat Linux)
* denotes some design irregularities.
Overriding Styles
Instructions are given below to override the styles used on this website. We provide details for users of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator on Windows and Apple computers:
Internet Explorer 6.0 for Microsoft Windows:
1. Select Tools and click Internet Options
2. Select the General tab and click the box entitled Accessibility
3. Select the required formatting option eg. "Ignore Font Sizes"
4. Click OK in Accessibility dialog box
5. Click OK in Internet Options dialog box
6. Click Refresh
Then to adjust the test size:
1. Select View
2. Scroll to Text Size and choose your preference
Internet Explorer 5.5 for Apple:
To adjust the text size:
1. Select View and then Text Zoom
2. Choose your preference
Netscape Navigator 7.1 for Microsoft Windows:
To adjust the text size:
1. Select View and then Text Zoom
2. Choose your preference
Netscape Navigator 7.1 for Apple:
To adjust the text size:
1. Select View and then Text Zoom
2. Choose your preference
This site has been evaluated on the basis of Priority 1 items in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines through use of the Bobby online accessiblity portal.
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A small number of web pages do not comply with WCAG Checkpoints 5.1 and 5.2 (which relate to structural markup of data tables). The pages listed below are not yet approved:
In each case this is due to partial support for the HTML 4.0 Table Model by our content editing software. This is an area that we are discussing with our software developers.