Accessibility

This website has been designed with you in mind. The webpages make use of certain accessibility features which are explained on this page. Also explained is information on downloading certain documents (PDF's) for reading or filling in later offline.

Browsealoud

This website is enabled for browsealoud. This software allows you to listen to the website content being read out to you. You can download the software by selecting the browsealoud icon.

Accessibility

This website conforms to W3C/WAI Double-A Compliance and valid XHTML 1.0

About this service

PDF (Portable Document Format)

Documents with the PDF icon are in PDF. These documents are information or leaflets which are available for download. We have kept our PDF file sizes to a minimum and compatible with Adobe Reader 5 and above. You may download this information then read it or print it out without required the internet. PDF's are located on the right side panel and the file size is displayed in KB (kilobytes), which are a smaller file size than MB (megabytes). The speed of download depends on your internet connection speed, but should be no longer than 5 minutes for the biggest file sizes.

If you do not already have the software to view these files please download the adobe reader software here.

You can have the PDF document read out to you by doing the following in sequence:

Hold down shift and ctrl and press Y then B

Access keys

Access Keys are enabled on the standard local government menu on the left hand side. Access keys are used by holding down the 'ALT' key and pressing the menu items related digit. Therefore to access 'Housing', hold ALT and press 7. For ease of use the access keys are the top 10 keys in a row on your keyboard under the function keys.

1 - Advice and benefits

2 - Business

3- Community and living

4 - Council and democracy

5 - Environment and planning

6 - Health and social care

7 - Housing

8 - Jobs and careers

9 - Leisure and culture

0 - Transport and streets

left arrow(cursor) key --- Go back to previous page

Changing colours

Changing the site's background colour can be particularly useful for users who rely on magnification technology as white can produce an uncomfortable glare. It is also possible to change the colour of body text on the site. Both can be achieved by changing preferences in your browser:

If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu, select Internet Options, select Accessibility, and put a tick in the box next to "Ignore colors specified on web pages", then select OK. Now go to Colors (colours), select Colors and make changes to text and background colours in the Colors panel.

If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the Edit menu, select Preferences, open the Appearance menu and select Colors. You can set the colour of text and background from here.

If you use Opera, go to the File menu select Preferences, open the 'page style' (under fonts and colours). Ensure 'user mode' options use own settings (default settings). Now go into fonts and colours and you can change the colour options. Select 'View' then select 'Style' then select 'user mode'.

If you using Firefox, go to Tools, select options. A box will appear, now select 'General' untick 'use system colours'. Now you can change the background and text colour on our website and any other website which supports this.

You may also set your own style sheet if you have one available, an example of this using explorer would be to go to 'tools', 'Internet options' 'accessibility' then select 'format documents using my style sheet'. This allows you to specify your own colours and text size.

The breadcrumb feature

Located under the menu at the top of the webpage. It acts as a trail of where you have been in the website structure.

Breadcrumbs are a very useful way of quickly navigating to sections of the site that you have just been to. As you use the web site you will see that this will change as you explore the different sections.

The search facility

Located in the top right corner of every page. Enter the phrase that you would like to search for into the search box, then click 'Search' or press <Enter>. After a short while you will be presented with your search results.

Linking to our website

If you wish to link to our website you can use the following code: