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title: "How to use PageAssist"
date: "2024-11-25T14:06:15+00:00"
summary: "Customize your website experience with PageAssist. Adjust fonts, contrast, focus, and more for improved accessibility and usability."
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Introduction
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Website visitors can use PageAssist to adjust their view of your website to suit special visual and navigational preferences. This document provides information about how your website visitors can adjust the settings to meet their specific accessibility requirements.

Instructions
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The system displays the PageAssist icon on the website after the visitor accepts or rejects cookies. The user hovers the mouse pointer over the PageAssist icon for an expanded view of the button with descriptive text: "Discover your personalization options." 

These instructions describe how your website visitors can use PageAssist to view your website.

1.  Select **PageAssist**. The _Personalization Options_ window opens.
    
    ![The PageAssist personalization menu. A full description of the menu is in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/3e5fcc00-6b0c-47c8-92f8-1d44b13251e0/web/Mon_PageAssist-PersonalizationOptions.png)
    

Language
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This section provides instructions on how your website visitors can change the PageAssist language.

Select the drop-down arrow in the _Language_ field to expand the PageAssist language list. Select the desired language.

Note

This only changes the language in PageAssist, not in the website.

Personalization options
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This section provides instructions on how your website visitors can make the following adjustments to the website appearance:

*   **Font**: Select this option to navigate through the fonts: Sans Serif, Serif, or OpenDyslexic.
*   **Font size**: Select this option to increase the text size incrementally up to 500%.
*   **Text spacing**: Select this option to increase the text spacing incrementally up to 5px.
*   **Cursor size**: Select this option to change the cursor size from Default to Big.
*   **Contrast**: Select this option to change the contrast to Dark Mode, Invert Colors, or Grayscale.
*   **Highlight Elements**: Select this option to change the highlighted elements to Links, Headings, Buttons, or All.
*   **CSS**: Select this option to turn CSS **OFF** or **ON**.
    
    For more information, visit [PageAssist setup with CSS Selectors](/node/58956).
    
*   **Focus**: Select this option to change focus between _Emphasis_ or _Reading Guide_.
*   **Media**: Force pause all Multimedia with a pause and play button.
*   **Animations**: Turn the switch **OFF** or **ON**.
*   **Audio**: Turn the switch **OFF** or **ON**.
*   **Hide Images:** Select this option to enable _Hide Images_
*   **Alternative Text**: Select this option to enable alternative text when hovering with the mouse pointer.
*   **Reset View**: Select this option to revert to the default page view.
*   **Information**: Select this option for more information about _PageAssist_.
*   **Site Menu**: Select this option to view only site headers, landmarks, or links.
*   **Accessibility Statement**: Click to navigate to the company accessibility statement.
*   **Keyboard Navigation**: Select **Keyboard navigation** for the page. The system displays a list of keyboard bindings as well as keyboard shortcuts for all PageAssist settings.

Select **X** to exit the _Personalization Options_ window and return to the website.

Additional resources
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For instructions on how to set up PageAssist on your website, visit the admin article collection [PageAssist setup introduction](/node/58961).