Your Rights: How to use this site

A Note for Visually Impaired Visitors
If you have trouble reading this site you may be able to change the settings on your browser to help you with the visibility of this site.

You can make several changes to your browser settings, including:-
- size and colour of text (not images)
- background colours
- image display
- override web page colour schemes.

The process for personalising browser settings may change from browser to browser. The instructions below are for Internet Explorer. If you use any other browser, access the help function for information.

Internet Explorer
Follow these instructions to override or ignore the settings on websites you visit (provided the websites are not based on style sheets):-
- on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
- on the 'General' tab, click on 'Accessibility'
- click in each of the three boxes
- click 'OK' .

Your browser will now display websites which have not set absolute attributes in accordance with your preferences.

You can set preferences for a number of features. The below instructions show you how to change the font type and the text size. For more information, use the help function.

These instructions explain how to change your preference for fonts:-

- on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
- on the 'General' tab, click 'Fonts'.
- in the 'Web page font' and 'Plain text font' lists, choose the fonts you would like to use.
- click 'OK'.

These instructions explain how to enlarge text:

- on the 'Tools' menu, click 'Internet Options'
- on the 'General' tab, click 'Accessibility'
- tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
- click 'OK'
- on the 'Browser' menu click 'View'
- click 'Text size'
- choose the size of text.
- Click 'OK'.

To prevent graphics from appearing on web pages:

- under 'Tools' , click 'Internet Options'
- on the 'Advanced' tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading
- click on the graphics options ('animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images') to remove the ticks
- click on 'Apply', and then click on 'OK'.
- if graphics still appear, select 'View' then 'Refresh' from the toolbar, or press F5.

Searching for information
The first place to look for information is the Your Rights section. This section contains a substantial amount of information on your rights in England and Wales under the Human Rights Act. It incorporates a guide to the Human Rights Act, the text of the Human Rights Act and a guide to seeking redress as well as guides to individual rights. The contents were originally produced in print format in the book 'Your Rights' published by Pluto Press and the structure of this section follows loosely the structure of the chapters in the book.

If you are using the section for the first time we recommend that you navigate through the various parts from the introduction so that you get the opportunity to scan the contents of each part in full. All the navigation appears in the menu on the expanding left side bar. To navigate through the text you click on the titles and sub titles of the sections you wish to view. To ensure that you don't get lost the left side bar will continue to show where you are in the section and a breadcrumb trail will appear at the top of the Your Rights screen showing where you have come from. Alternatively, you could print out the section in PDF form and view it offline.

To navigate more quickly through the text have a look at the topics index. This outlines the topics included in the Your Rights section in a structured form, so that you can navigate directly to the relevant area. Alternatively, you can search for specific words or phrases with the Your Rights search engine. But, take a look at our search tips first.

If you can't find the information you are looking for in this section, try searching the FAQ's. The FAQ's have been written to complement the Your Rights database and include topics not covered by this section. You can navigate from the FAQ's topic page or use the search engine.

Further information and advice

If you need further information or you can't find the information you are looking for on the site, follow the links through the Your Rights section to other useful organisations who can help with information and advice, useful websites and further reading.

Alternatively, you can ask for a general query to be answered as an FAQ or email an enquiry to Liberty. If you are an advisor you can join the discussion forum where you can raise specific queries or discuss particular areas of the law.