 Accessibility Options in Netscape Navigator:
If you are involved in designing accessible web sites, then you need to test out your site in Netscape using these options to check on the design and layout.
To access most of the accessibility options that you can change in Netscape Navigator, select "Edit" from the main top menu, then "Preferences".
To override text and background colours- select "Advanced" and uncheck the box that says "Enable style sheets". Then at the top, under "Appearance", select "Colors". You can then change the text and background colours to suit your needs.
Changing fonts - select "Edit" from the main top menu, then "Preferences" then "Appearance". Now click on fonts and you can choose whichever font you like to display the web page. But this option will only work if you have already disabled the style sheet as described above.
Changing font sizes - just select "View" from the top menu, then either choose "Increase Font" or "Decrease Font".
Turning off graphics and images - I always find this rather tricky in Netscape. From the "Edit" menu at the top, select "Preferences", then "Advanced". One of the options which is normally "ticked" is "Automatically load images". If you uncheck that box, then all images should be replaced by small image icons, but the actual graphics are not downloaded. However, this does seem to be a bit erratic at times.
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