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Access - One page help

Accents, e.g. in email - may involve using the 'Alt' key with some numbers from the keypad - see this Accent page

Accessibility information:

Background Colour

The default appearance of this site uses a white background and fixed menu. Switch this site so that it uses a coloured background, or white background with red or green masthead lifebelt.

Menu Problems

Choose a scrollable menu if the fixed menu is causing you grief, or the default site behaviour if it's not.

Other colours

You'll find you can use the browser's colour controls to set your own background colour on this site - the control is usually in the web browser preferences - use the browser menu to find these - check Tools/Internet Options (Internet Explorer) or Edit/Preferences (Firefox)

Font Size

Use the web browser software's controls to adjust font size - look for the menu 'View/Text size' or in the Firefox browser use the keyboard's 'Control Key and '+' or '-' to change font size. If this causes the fixed menu to spill off the bottom of the page, rescue it by setting the site to have a scrollable menu ...

Skip navigation

The first link on any page will take you past the navigation controls to the page content

Accessibility checklist for web sites from IBM

Account - your IT account

Account - unlock student account

Accounts - Info from the computer department on what you need to do to pursue a new computer account at Bath Spa University. This is on the computing wiki so to view that link you'll need to log in as a member of staff.

Active Directory - the Bath Spa University windows network uses this to store basic information about you in your workplace.

Acronyms in IT - identify what it stands for using this external site

Address book - Outlook's email address storage, called 'Contacts' ...

Add Bookmark

Alias - how to use Apple OS X's Aliases ...

Alphabet, Phonetic

 Apple OS X help pages: (That's pronounced 'OS Ten' - the 'X' is a roman numeral)

• Here's a Mark's help page for people with Macs
• Info on Microsoft Office 2011 for the mac - external link - anticipated to arrive late 2010. Including Outlook.

Applications Server (The Bath Spa University work management system)

Assessing web page content

Asset Management using Bath Spa University's 'Adminweb' site.

Athens accounts - the University now uses an alternative system - access using the Library's Electronic resources web pages - and if necessary, to log in, use your University username and password.

Attachments

Audacity and podcasts, a quick guide

Authoring web pages

Avery label wizard: helps you with page layout for label printing

Autoarchive - using this to manage email, especially spam.