Our committment to web accessibility:

Web text size and colors appear differently from browser to browser, from computer screen to computer screen, and from server to server. The Center for Aging and Health designs pages with accessibility in mind, however it is impossible for our designers to see all our readers' computer screens and their settings for text and color when the design is produced in our offices. Until the web industry decides to make all the "tracks" the same size, as the railroad business did in the mid 1880s, varieties of visual experience are inevitable. We offer the following instructions to help you adjust your own web browser so that you can enlarge the text you are reading. The photos will not be made larger using this method.

View directions below for increasing the size of text on your web browser.

The Center for Aging and Health (CAH) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) is committed to webpage design that is easy for people with vision and motor coordination deficiencies to use. We have researched webpages that also have this commitment and have found that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) pages at http://www.nih.gov/ and http://nihseniorhealth.gov/ show many exemplary design features that make their webpages easy to view and navigate. The CAH, like the NIH, serves the elder community with health information, services, and advice. The media that communicate our knowledge should, we think, be designed with our audience in mind.

Therefore, our navigation labels and text are slightly larger than many webpages, and we have designed the information and images to be easy to find and view.

If you have comments or suggestions on the design, layout, accessibility, or content of this webpage, please email cahinfo@med.unc.edu.

Ways to Make Text Appear Larger on Your Microsoft Internet Explorer Window:

Put a text size modifier button on your browser toolbar:

Do the following:

1. On your browser toolbar, go to "View" > "Toolbars" > and then choose "Customize."

2. Scroll through the list of toolbar buttons until you see the one that is marked with a red circle in the image below. It will have two As with a double arrow underneath and the word "Size" next to the As.

3. Click on it once to select it.

4. Then click on the "Add" button in the middle of the box, and the text size modifier toolbar button will be transfered to the right side of the dialogue box. Choose the "Close" button on the upper right of the dialogue box.

You will then return to your main window and the icon for accessing your text modifier toolbar will appear on your top toolbar. Click on it and choose the size of text that you wish to use: smallest, smaller, medium, larger, largest. At any viewing session, you can alter the size of the text by using this toolbar, and you can remove the toolbar by reversing the above steps.

The NIH website has excellent instructions on how to deactivate the browser's pre-programmed instructions on text size. Go to http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/accessibility.htm. Once you make this change in your browser settings, you can go into the “View” menu in Internet Explorer, click “Text Size” and then select the size you prefer.