Read it your way

On this site

The Aa Reading button at the top of every page opens a small panel. In it you can choose:

• Colours: match your device, or pick light or dark.
• Typeface: our typewriter-style logbook font, a plain or book one, Atkinson Hyperlegible (designed by the Braille Institute for low vision) or OpenDyslexic, if any of those is easier on the eye.
• Text size: four steps up from whatever size your browser already uses, so if you've set it larger, we start from there.
• Background lines: moving or still. If your device is set to reduce motion, they stay still regardless.
• Print or save as PDF: just the words, without the menus and drawings.

Your choices are saved in your own browser for next time. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else.

On your own device

Your browser and phone come with better tools than any website could add, and they work everywhere you read. You only need the one you came for.

Make it bigger

Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) and press + to zoom, or pinch on a phone or tablet. Most browsers remember the zoom for each site, so you only do it once.

Listen to it

Most browsers can read a page aloud without an add-on. In Microsoft Edge, right-click the page and choose Read aloud. Chrome's Reading mode and Firefox's Reader view both have a play button, and recent versions of Safari offer Listen to Page. On a phone, look for Spoken Content in an iPhone's accessibility settings, or Select to Speak on Android.

Read it in another language

Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox all have translation built in. If yours doesn't offer to translate on its own, look for Translate in its menu or address bar. Firefox does the translating on your own device.

How the site is built

We've built the site to work with a keyboard, a screen reader and your own settings, rather than adding an accessibility widget on top. Widgets like that tend to get in the way of the tools people already rely on.

If anything here is hard to read or use, please tell us and we'll fix it.

The idea for this page and the reading panel came from the Stimpunks Foundation's accessibility field guide, which is well worth a read.