Help and Access
Help Topics:
What does the site provide?
A facility to help you plan garden visits in Cheshire and Warrington, and to access information on places to visit, rest and stay, using an interactive map. It also provides information on specific plant collections that can be found in certain gardens - in the 'In Bloom' section; garden events; and garden news and reviews. Each garden has its own gallery, regularly updated with new images, to provide a virtual tour - and there is a gallery section complete with a slide show and videos to watch.
How can I use the map?
The controls are on the left side of the map. They allow you to pan across the map and zoom in or out. Clicking on the centre button will take you back to your original view. You can also move across the map by positioning the mouse arrow on the map and depressing the left mouse button – a hand symbol will appear, by moving the mouse with the left button depressed you can drag the map to reveal new areas.
What are Nearby Options?
These are all the visitor attractions, shops, pubs, restaurants, accommodation and other facilities, within easy travelling distance of your chosen route. Options are listed by category (Visit, Enjoy, Stay) with individual destinations listed under sub-categories (Country and Crafts, Eat and Drink, Hotels).
How can I see the Nearby Options on the map?
Click in the box of each sub-category (e.g. Food and Drink). Names of places that fall under each sub-category will be listed in the Options column and map pins representing each of them will appear on the map.
Another way of locating attractions, accommodation or facilities near your route, is to click on the blue arrow next to each sub-category (Stay/Bed and Breakfast), all places listed under that sub-category are then listed. If you click on a name, that destination will then be highlighted on the map.
How can I find out more about the Nearby Options I have chosen?
Click on the Map Pin to see a summary of the option and then click on the title in the white pop-up box to see further details, this will open a new information window.
How do I print off information about a Nearby Option destination?
Click on the print icon that is located in the information window.
How do I print a map showing my selected Nearby Options?
Click on the ‘Print View’ button on the right-hand side half way down the page.
Accessibility
How to Change Browser Text Size:
By default, all text on this website is set in a relatively sized font. This means that you can resize the text easily from within your browser. If you need to, you can also change the font, font colour and background colour. Instructions for the most common browser types are provided below:
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Internet Explorer (all windows versions)
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Netscape (6.0/7.0+) / Mozilla (i.e. Firebird / Firefox / Camino, Mac and PC)
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Netscape (pre 6.0)
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Opera
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Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac)
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Apple Safari
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Adobe Acrobat and accessibility
Internet Explorer (all Windows versions):
To change the text size:
Click on 'View' in the top menu toolbar.
Select 'Text Size'.
Select your option.
The default is medium. Alternatively, if you have a mouse with a wheel you can hold the CTRL key on your keyboard whilst scrolling up or down with the wheel to alter the text size.
To change the font and colour settings:
Select Internet Options from the View OR the Tools menu - this will depend on your browser version.
Select the Accessibility Option and click the three boxes displayed under formatting, so that they are now showing ticks.
Follow the instructions below to change font and colours.
To change the font:
Select Internet Options from the View OR the Tools menu depending on your browser version.
Click on the Fonts button
Choose your font from the drop-down menu under Web page font and click the OK button.
Arial or Verdana if you have it are two of the easiest fonts to read.
To change text or background colours:
Select Internet Options from the View OR the Tools menu depending on your browser version.
Click on the Colours button and un-tick the box next to Use Windows colours.
To change the colour of the text, click on the button to the right of Text ,choose your colour from the palette and click OK.
To change the colour of the background, click on the button to the right of Background, choose your colour from the palette and click OK.
To remove images:
Select Internet Options from the View OR the Tools menu depending on your browser.
Select the Advanced tab at the top right hand corner of the box.
Scroll down to the Multimedia heading.
Un-tick the box next to Show Pictures.
Click on the Apply button and then click on the OK button.
If you need further help visit the Microsoft Help and Support site
Netscape (6.0/ 7.0+) / Mozilla (i.e. Firebird / Firefox / Camino, Mac and PC) :
To change the text size:
Click on 'View' in the top menu toolbar.
Then select 'Text Size' or 'Text Zoom'.
To change the font and colour settings:
All changes are done by selecting preferences from the edit menu
Select Appearance from the let hand panel
Select fonts and make your changes
To increase the font size increase the value in the box Minimum font size.
Untick the small box nearly at the bottom Allow documents to use other fonts
Select colours and make your changes
Under the heading, “When a web page provides its own colours and background” select the option that starts “Use my chosen colours, ignoring .....”
Click OK
Firefox Users:
All major changes are done by selecting Options... from the Tools menu
Select General from the Left Hand bar
Select the button Fonts & colors... from the right hand section and make your changes. From here you can change Fonts, colours, link colours, background colours etc.
Selecting Extensions from the left hand panel allows you to install extensions to the browser. Some may be of help to you
Netscape (pre 6.0):
To change the text size:
Click on 'View' in the top menu toolbar.
Then select Increase Font.
The keyboard action for this is CTRL+
To change the font and colour settings:
Select Appearance.
Select Colours.
Select Text, choose your preferred colour and click on the OK button.
Select Background, choose your preferred colour and click on the OK button.
Click OK again to close the Preferences option.
To remove the images:
Select the Edit option from the Menu Bar.
Select the Preferences option.
Select the Advanced option.
Un-tick the box next to Automatically load Images and Click OK.
For more information visit Netscape Browser Central
Opera users:
To change the text size:
Click on 'File' in the top menu toolbar.
Click on Preferences, then (in the left-hand 'Category' section of the dialogue box) 'Documents'.
Specify the font-size you require in the 'Minimum font size ( pixels)' option.
Help from the Opera site:
See Visual impairments and Opera
See Mobility impairments and Opera
See Accessibility in Opera
Internet Explorer 5.1 (Mac):
To change the text size:
Click on 'View' in the top menu toolbar.
Use the 'Text Zoom' feature.
For full instructions on making use of the various versions of the Macintosh operating system's accessibility features, including resizing text, text-to-speech function and keyboard alternatives to mouse functions, visit the Apple website's section on accessibility
Apple Safari:
To change the text size:
Go the 'View' menu.
Use the 'Make Text Bigger' and 'Make Text Smaller' menu items.
Alternatively you can use the option key with + or - to increase or decrease the text size.
Adobe Acrobat and accessibility:
This site uses Adobe Acrobat to display PDF documents. If you have trouble using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe provide a free online tool which converts the content of PDF files to either HTML or ASCII text. Adobe also provides advise on how to configure your Reader, and a free download of the Accessible Adobe Reader.
