Page content section :
Accessibility : Website accessibility
We have designed our website to try and help everyone have full access to it. Making our site accessible has helped improve its usability for everyone, however they use our website and whatever their abilities.
This website makes full use of cascading style sheets to control the layout and appearance. However, it can still be viewed, navigated and used with the stylesheet turned off (the Firefox and Opera web browsers allow you to turn stylesheets off - why not give it a try?).
In this section you can find out more about the following :
- Accesskeys, keyboard and tab key navigation
- Changing text size (and webpage colours)
- Opening external website links in new browser windows or tabs
- Speech enabling our website
- Viewing this website / Screen resolution
- Website navigation
- Web browsers
- Website testing and accreditation (including
what the logos at the bottom of every page mean and some useful links to
website testing tools on the web, and lots of links to website testing
tools)
- Why the new look website? (what
changes and accessibility improvements we have made)
- Printing from the Adur District Council
website
- Website Awards
- For more information on how to adjust your computer to make using it,
and visiting websites, more accessible see :
AbilityNet's - My computer my way webpages (www.abilitynet.org.uk/myway/screen.htm)
For more information about web accessibility see also these useful external websites :
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) (www.w3.org/WAI)
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10)
- The Cabinet Office website : Details of building in universal accessibility + checklist (http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/handbook/html/2-4.asp)
- The
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA 1995, Part 3) (www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DisabilityRights/DG_4001068)
- Accessibility : BBC - My web my way (www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility)
- Accessibility : Microsoft / Windows (www.microsoft.com/enable)
- Accessibility : Apple (www.apple.com/accessibility)
- Accessibility
: Linux / KDE (http://accessibility.kde.org)
- RNIB : Background on web accessibility - Web Access Centre (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_webaccessibility.hcsp)
- RNIB : Types of disability (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_typesofdisability.hcsp)
- RNIB : Accessibility myths (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_accessibilitymyths.hcsp)
- RNIB : Access technology (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_disabilityandtheweb.hcsp)
- RNIB : Using a computer without vision (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_withoutvisinfosheet.hcsp)
- RNIB
: Using a computer with low vision (www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_lowvisioninfosheet.hcsp)
- Hobo : 101 Accessible Website Design Tips (www.hobo-web.co.uk/tips/)
- Dive into Accessibility : 30 days to a more accessible website (http://diveintoaccessibility.org)
- Webcredible : Web accessibility articles and resources (www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility)
