Website accessibility
We are committed to providing a website that is accessible
to as many people as possible - regardless of their ability or
browsing technology and including those who have visual, hearing,
motor and cognitive impairments.
We would like to give you control and let you decide how you
want use the site. We try to offer accessibility
options that are easy to discover, understand and select.
We aim to achieve overall compliance with the Web
Accessibility Initiative's (WAI) guidelines.
Web Accessibility Initiative
We try to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These Guidelines explain
how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.
Conformance to these Guidelines helps to make the Web more
accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.
There may be some pages that do not conform to all the
guidelines. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the whole site
conforms, this is an ongoing process and older content may not yet
reach the standards in all areas.
If you have any problems accessing any information on the site,
please contact us and we will endeavour to fix the problem or
provide the information in an appropriate format.
This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style
Sheets.
W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and
practices.
Changing the text size or colours of websites
Almost all modern browsers let you change the way web pages are
displayed. If you need to change the text size or colour, or the
colour of the background, the BBC have a very
good 'How to guides' for making the web easier to
use.
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Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT
attributes. Those in purely decorative graphics or used for layout
include null ALT attributes. An ALT attribute is the text you see
when you hover your mouse pointer over an image or the text that is
displayed when images are turned off in your browser.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual
layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets
at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Access keys
We try to avoid using access keys on our site as these
can override screen readers shortcuts.
Plain English
The language used on the site will, where possible, be concise,
easy to understand and free from jargon, abbreviations and
technical terms.
Although this website is mainly written in English, we provide
some basic information in the borough's main community languages.
Where appropriate we can translate information on this website or
provide an interpreter. For further information please contact us.
Audio downloads
In some circumstances we provide mp3 audio files for download
from this website. To listen to them you will need a
media player, such as Windows Media
Player or Quicktime. Where
possible, we will provide a text transcription of the audio file.
The recordings for download may be podcast programmes or interviews
broadcast on the local community radio station. Where this is the
case much of the information discussed is already available on this
website so we will not always provide a full transcription.