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Accessibility
Did you know that you can change the text size, text style and colourscheme of any well-designed website? You can even get computer programs that will "speak" a webpage so you don't have to read it!
Options like these are especially useful for people who are disabled. talk about you is designed to be accessible, which means it should work well with most of these options.
Find out how to make talk about you and other websites easier to use by going to BBC - My Web My Way, which has instructions for people who use Windows computers, Macs or Linux computers.
Web accessibility standards
Every page on talk about you has these 4 logos to the bottom right:
| Logo | Description |
|---|---|
 | This says that the web page is written in XHTML, which is a language your web browser can use to show the page. Pages written in XHTML are structured in a way that makes it easier for screen readers (web browsers for blind people) to access them. |
 | This says that the design and colourscheme of the webpage are written in a file called a stylesheet, which is kept separate to the actual text on the page. This means that people who can't see well or colourblind people can change the colours used and make the text bigger, so they can read the page easier. |
 | This says that the webpage follows the international web content accessibility guidelines, which is a checklist of rules to follow when writing webpages. Pages with this logo are written so that everyone – including blind people, deaf people, colourblind people and others – can use all the information on the page. |
 | This says that the webpage has been checked by Bobby, a system that checks webpages to see if they follow accessibility standards. |
