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Help - technical information

System requirements

These pages are programmed in accordance with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
guidelines and are barrier free. For full representation of the pages an up-to-date browser with CSS support is required (at least Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 7.5, MAC Safari 1.2).

Access keys

For a comfortable use of the keyboard we provide the following access keys to get to the main navigation points:

Alt + 0

Startup page

Alt + 1

Top of the page

Alt + 4

Help - technical information

Alt + 6

Site map

Alt + 8

Main information

Alt + 9

Contact page

Using the Internet Explorer or the Mozilla/Netscape browsers please choose the alternate access key contraction shown off with it at the same time. Using the Internet Explorer you still have to push the enter key.

Using the Opera browser please use the combination Shift + Esc instead of the alt key. Using an Apple Macintosh operating system please use the CTRL key instead of the alt key.

Enlarging the lettering
To enlarge the lettering, please use the functions of your browser:

Internet Explorer:

menu view > font size > size of your choice
Below the navigation on the left side you will find buttons to change the lettering.
Firefox:

menu view > font size > size of your choice
Using the keyboard: shortcut key CTRL and + or CTRL and - (Windows); Apple and + or Apple and - (MacOS)
Mozilla / Netscape:

menu show > text zoom > percentage of your choice
Using the keyboard: STRG and + or STRG and - (Windows); Apple and + or Apple and - (MacOS)
Opera:

menu view > zoom factor > percentage of your choice

MAC Safari:

menu view > make text bigger/smaller

Using the keyboard: Apple and + or Apple and -Pdf-Files (Portable Document Format)
Some of the information and other material is offered in the platform-independent Pdf format in order to facilitate transfer and display the documents in a form that closely resembles the original.

In order to view such documents you require the Acrobat Reader. You can download the software from Adobe free of charge. Please follow the instructions given on the Adobe site to install it.