Accessibility

Listen to our website

We have teamed up with Texthelp Systems to provide a service which gives our visitors the chance to listen to the Local Directory. All you have to do is simply click on the link below to listen to our website.

Listen to our website

Changing colours, font, text size and other settings

All modern browsers allow you to change colours and font sizes. We’ve tried to create a site which doesn’t get in the way when you change these settings

For advice on changing settings, check out the BBC’s accessibility pages .

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Some documents on our site are available in a PDF format, this helps us to preserve the original format securely in a relatively small file size. In order to view the document you will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader which is freely available to download .

Accessibility

Websites must by law be accessible, and should meet the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards on accessibility. In the same way that we have made changes to our buildings to make them more accessible to people with disabilities, we have made changes to our website.

Local Directory website

The Local Directory website aims to be both accessible and usable to all that need information from it.

Our aim is to provide customers with equal access to information and services. Accessibility has been paramount since the design stage and we have taken steps to ensure we take into account the needs of different people.

We have followed guidance and standards by the Government, and our pages conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The Accessibility 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 a few pages which may not comply fully to the above guidelines. We are continuously carrying out work to improve these pages so that we conform to the guidelines.

Use of maps

Some of our information is based on maps and unfortunately due to the graphical nature maps we are unable to provide an alternative accessible format.

Tell us about accessibility problems

We are constantly working to improve the accessibility of this site and would welcome your suggestions and comments so that we can continuously improve access for everyone.

Tell us about any accessibility problems