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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

Accessability 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 - more info on these on Library and Information Services web pages

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.

All before you, in this world, is smoke and shadows.