Accessing Alternative Web Style Sheets
"Each to his choice, and I rejoice" (Rudyard Kipling: The Five Nations)
Problem: Web sites just don't consider the needs of some people!
The number of web sites that do try to consider the special needs of some of their potential users is increasing - although, sadly, not fast enough. Many of these developers are addressing these issues by making use of a particular piece of technology known as CSS. This technology allows the designer to separate the content on a web site (that's the informational bit) from the presentation of that content (ie the text size, the colours used etc.).
This Guide, for example, offers a low-contrast "view" for dyslexic visitors and a small screen view. Unfortunately many web browsers do not provide these visitors with the means to access these "alternative views".
Some other, freely available, web browsers do provide such access including:
If "alternative views" of web pages are available, these browsers offer their users an option to choose from a list of the available "views". In Firefox, this option is accessed by selecting an icon in the lower left-hand corner of the browser window. Alternate "views" can be selected, or changed, by the user at will.
Perhaps you have a slow Internet connection and would rather not download images or have no use for images. If this is the case, I would recommend that you consider using Lynx - a text only browser that is available for a number of operating systems including Windows.