How to use our online advice tool

How to use our online advice tool

A woman at a computer screen which has an information symbol on it. Above the woman is the Mencap logo

What is our online advice tool?

Our advice tool is something we have made on some of our webpages that will help you find what you are looking for.

The advice and information hub advice tool start page

An advice tool looks like a square in a webpage which has buttons.

Our Advice and Information hub is an advice tool.

A laptop showing a cursor on the screen over to the word click

Clicking on the buttons will take you to the things you want to know about.

Dot or radio button

Some buttons look like round dots. These are called radio buttons.

Rectangle buttons

Some buttons look like rectangles.

Radio buttons next to sentences about where they take you to

How to use radio buttons:

Radio buttons sit next to a sentence about the information they will take you to.

 

The word Next under two back to back right facing arrow heads

After you click on a radio button you need to click the word 'Next' to go to the next page.

Education button takes you to the education page of information

How to use rectangle buttons:

On rectangle buttons it tells you what sort of information they will take you to.

When you click on a rectangle button you go straight to the next page.

Go to page button

There are two different kinds of rectangle buttons:

  • Rectangle buttons that have a square and an arrow symbol on them.

    These rectangle buttons will take you out of the advice tool and into the webpage that has the things you wanted to know about.
Go to next step button
  • Rectangle buttons that have a right arrow symbol on them.

    These rectangle buttons will take you to another advice tool page that has more buttons to choose from.
Back button with left facing arrows

How do I go back to the last page of the advice tool I was just looking at?

If you want to go back to the page you have just been to, click the word 'Back' which is under all the buttons.

Restart button and symbol

How do I go back to the start of the advice tool?

To go back to the start, click on the word 'Restart' which is under all the buttons.

A read aloud tool

The read aloud aid

Some of our advice tools also have a read aloud aid on them.

The read aloud aid can read some of the words in the advice tool out aloud.

The read aloud aid next to a woman who is listening

Click on the black arrow in a read aloud aid to hear the sentence on the advice tool being read out aloud.

You will need to have speakers on your computer to use the read aloud aid.