New Features

Improved Accessibility

Many of the maths images of have been replaced by plain text. For the remaining images alternative text is now provided. Some of the shortcuts used in the text are:

• / - divided by
• ^ - to the power of
• != - not equal to
• equiv - equivalent

In many cases it has been necessary to add additional brackets to the expressions, and where possible square brackets have been used.

Users can use the keyboard to control the navigations (exercises and examples). The initial character can be used to activate buttons, or where numerical answers are given, the numbers 1-4 (starting at the top-left, moving across then down).

Code behind the site conforms to W3C standards - the body responsible for setting the standards for web pages

(not examples/exercises)

Different Styles

Basic Maths has a number of different styles, dependant on the browser used (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla etc...) and the medium being used for display, whether being viewed on screen, or printed on paper.

When printing using Internet Explorer (v5.5 +) you should find that the print style is used by default, ie the navigation and header graphics are not printed.

Users using later versions of Netscape or Mozilla will be able to select their choice of style for viewing/printing the Basic Maths pages. Users may have to manually select the 'printing' style sheet before printing.

Mozilla: From the "View" menu select "Use Style" and then select the required style sheeet.