ACCESSIBILITY

As part of our efforts to reach people with limited mobility and accessibility to the UOB website, we have designed this website with enhanced features that will ease the experience of dealing with the UOB. Following are some of the features on our portal that aim to benefit people with different abilities.

The University of Bahrain Authority follows the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to maintain the structure, navigation, look and feel of the website. This makes browsing and accessing information and services easier.

If you are having difficulty reading a text or viewing images, you can select ‘Zoom’ to zoom in and enlarge the screen. You can change the screen size by selecting the menu ‘View’, then select ‘Zoom’ and set the page size according to your need.

If you experience difficulty reading the text on the computer screen, you can enlarge or reduce the text-size by adjusting the font size setting of your browser.

  • Internet Explorer: Click on the ‘View’ menu. Then select the size you require.
  • Firefox: Click on the ‘View’ menu. Then, select ‘Increase’ or ‘Decrease’ to change the text size. Alternatively, you can press the Ctrl and + keys to increase the text size, or Ctrl and – keys to decrease the text size. Pressing the Ctrl and the number 0 keys resets the default size.
  • Chrome: Click on the main menu. Then, click on ‘Zoom’ and adjust the text size. Alternatively, you can press the Ctrl and + keys to increase the text size, or the Ctrl and – keys to decrease the text size. Pressing the Ctrl and the number 0 keys resets to the default size.
  • Opera: Change the size of both text and graphics using the + and – keys on the keyboard. Each press will increase or decrease the size by 10 percent.
  • Safari: Click on the ‘View’ menu. Then click on ‘Make text bigger’ or ‘Make text smaller’ to change the font size. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts. You can increase the text size by pressing Apple and + keys. To decrease the size, press the Apple and – keys.

If you find it difficult to read text against the background of a certain color, you can easily change the colors in your web browser by following these steps:

  • Internet Explorer: Click on the ‘Tools’ menu or press the Alt + T keys. Then click on ‘Internet options’ or press the alphabet O. Then, click on ‘Accessibility’ or press Alt + E. When the accessibility options are displayed, check the box next to ‘Ignore colours specified on web page’ using the mouse or by pressing Alt + C. Save your changes by clicking on the ‘OK’ button or by pressing ‘Enter’. You will be taken back to the ‘Internet Options’ window. The website will now be using the same color scheme as your computer.
  • Firefox: Click on the ‘Tools’ menu or press the Alt + T keys. Then click on ‘Options’ or press the alphabet O to display the ‘Options’ window. Click on ‘Fonts and colors’, or you can press F to display the ‘Fonts and colors’ window. Then to set Firefox to use your windows color scheme, click on the ‘Use system colors’ checkbox or ‘Tab’ to the checkbox and press the space bar to select it.