Help Using the Site

Universal Access

The Dartmouth home site is designed to allow simple and fast access to Web pages, by including these features:

• Page layout and navigation use common user conventions and are located consistently across multiple pages
• Pages expand and contract to support a variety of browser window sizes
• Text is resizable by the user to improve legibility
• Pages are coded for the effective use of screen readers
• Pages support Web standards
• Pages load quickly on a dial-up modem

Web Browsers

If you are viewing this page with an older browser, then you will not be seeing the complete visual experience. We recommend that you upgrade to a standards-based browser, such as those listed below. For more information about Web standards, please visit the Web Standards Project.

• Apple Safari (Mac OS X)
• Konqueror (Linux KDE Desktop)
• Netscape v7 or higher (all platforms), Mozilla Firefox (Max OS X and Windows), Camino (Mac OS X), Galeon (Linux GNOME Desktop) or other browser stemming from the Mozilla.org project
• Opera v7 or higher (Windows, Linux)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or higher (Windows)

Frequently Asked Questions

• Why is the text big? Small?
  In order to let users change the text size for their screen and vision, we have removed restrictions on the size, and each browser may vary slightly.
• How do I change the size of text?
  To increase or decrease the size of text, select View > Text Zoom or View > Text Size on your preferred browser.
• How do I find out what's in the current section?
  Look at the navigation that starts with "Home >" right above the page title. The final link indicates where you are in the Web site and will take you to an index page for the current section.