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The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

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Internet Explorer

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Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Library & Student Services

Support for disabled and dyslexic students

Find out how the Library can support you and help you make the most of your studies:

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Library and Student Services

Published on 03 Oct 2023

Help and support

The Library Disability Support team offer student appointments via Microsoft Teams, phone and face-to-face at Headingley Library and Sheila Silver Library. You can Book an Appointment here. You may want to set up Microsoft Teams as this will allow you to share your screen during the appointment which can be helpful, see our Microsoft Teams page for more details.

If you need academic skills or subject support one to one appointments are also available, either online, by email, by phone or face-to-face. Please complete the “Get Help” form on the Library’s Subject Support pages.

Disability Resource Areas

Students registered with Disability Advice can use the Disability Resource Area in each Library for silent independent study. These are rooms which provide a quiet and comfortable study space and contain PCs with dual monitors and assistive software as well as a range of equipment and reference books.

Assistive software

If you have assistive software installed on your own device, the Assistive Software page has links to guides, video tutorials and FAQs to help you use and get the most from it. Each eBook platform also has its own accessibility FAQ - these are linked to from the eBook Collections and the Database A-Z page.

Mindview mindmapping software is available for use at home through our Remote App. Please see the Software page for further details. And did you know that Read & Write for Google Chrome browser is a toolbar which offers some of the functions of the full Read & Write software (including text-to-speech) within the Chrome web browser?

Our Study Support Software Finder will help identify the best ones for you. For example, it can recommend software to change your screen colour to reduce eye strain when reading, for dictating instead of typing your work or getting your computer to read text aloud. We also have a list of recommended free software and apps which you can use on your own device.

If you need to convert files into more accessible formats you can use SensusAccess, our ‘Help using Sensus Access’ tutorial provides step by step instructions. Within your Modules on MyBeckett you can use Anthology Ally to convert documents into more accessible formats. We also have some FAQs to help you make Library eBooks more accessible.

The Library website has lots of other resources and support available and you can get 24/7 Library and IT advice by phone and chat.

Originally published March 2021; last updated September 2023.