6 Keywords: Google Toolbar, Firefox, Research, Internet, Visual Acuity, Visual Impairment

For my exams I have ½ extra time. Sometmes I use it but it depends on the task. The online one that I did, I used it all and still ran out of time. It was more a case of just not being able to find stuff in the right amount of time."

 " I don't change the browsers or adapt them but I use Google Toolbar in Firefox rather than Google, just because I like the layout.  I have made fonts larger – on the screen as well."

To highlight the problem of speed of searching online when having to scroll horizontally because fonts have been enlarged here is a comment from Jakob Nielson "When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane. (Typically, users score lower than designers on spatial reasoning and visualization tests.) In contrast, one-dimensional scrolling is a simple way to move across content without advance planning: you just keep moving down."