Help

If you need further assistance and/or cannot locate information on our website, please call or e-mail us: BusLINE 905-639-0550 or contactbt@burlington.ca

For website viewing assistance, here are some helpful tips:

Increasing Text Size

To increase the text size on our web pages, you can click on the "AAA" text icon that appears along our top navigation bar. 

Zooming in on a website

You can make web pages easier to read by magnifying the page (zooming in). If you zoom in, everything on the web page will be magnified (including text, images, and controls). Zooming will change the magnification of the web site, regardless of the website's formatting.

Internet Explorer

1. Select "View" in the menu bar.
2. Select "Zoom".
3. Select "Zoom In" or "Zoom Out" or the desired percentage.

OR

Click the Magnifying glass icon at the bottom right corner of the Internet Explorer window. Or, select the arrow to open the list of options and select one.

Opera

Use your "+" and "-" keys to zoom in or out of a website in increments of 10 percent, respectively

Netscape

1. Zoom in: [CTRL +] or [CTRL Mousewheel up]
2. Zoom out: [CTRL -] or [CTRL Mousewheel down]
3. Reset Zoom: [CTRL 0]

Mozilla Firefox

4. Zoom in: [CTRL +] or [CTRL Mousewheel up]
5. Zoom out: [CTRL -] or [CTRL Mousewheel down]
6. Reset Zoom: [CTRL 0]

Additional Tips

Some small changes to your computer settings can make a big difference. Here is a list of simple changes that can be made to your computer to make screen information easier to see.

Mouse Pointer

Within the windows control panel you can alter the settings for your mouse pointer on screen. There are a huge number of choices with different size pointers, colours, shapes and it is worth experimenting with these to find one that works well for you. There are other features which can be enabled to make following and finding the mouse pointer easier. Mouse trails leave a trail behind the mouse as you move it and pointer locator gives a visual indication of the mouse position when you press the control (Ctrl) key.

Colour Schemes

There are a number of colour schemes which can be found within the display settings that offer higher contrast, larger fonts and clearer text. These can then be further customized with your own colour choices and font sizes.

Microsoft Magnifier & Narrator

Windows has two basic programs to help people with a vision loss access their computer. These programs are free and do not include the more advanced features that are available from commercial products.

Microsoft magnifier uses a portion of the screen to show a magnified image of your mouse pointer or where you are typing. You can customize the amount of magnification and which area of the screen you want to use for the magnification image.

Microsoft narrator is a basic screen reading program which reads out screen information and echoes key presses using synthetic speech.