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You could also try the contrast control to the right hand side of this page ” Toggle Contrast”

The  following resources are available on the internet for free, although BAND Ltd cannot guarantee their content or effectiveness.

View a page with only text :

http://www.textise.net/

Colour filtering:

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

Online screen reader:

http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/beta/index.php?locale=en