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Accessibility points
A common design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled users, and allowing text sizes and colours to be changed to suit the users needs.
Ensuring that all images used in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts"), as required by internationally-recognised Web accessibility guidelines.
All graphical navigation buttons are similarly ALT-tagged.
To aid users of text-only and audio browsers we have included a hidden accessibility feature, which enables the user to "skip over" the main page navigation buttons (rather then having to tab through them manually at the start of every page). Thus, the user can jump immediately down to the main content of the page. Additionally we have programmed each page with some "Access keys",
this means that by clicking on "Alt + 1" and then "return" you will go straight to the Homepage. Just make sure that your browser is compatible.
We strictly avoid the use of frames throughout the main council web site.
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Please note that Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's web-based conversion service.
In general, we try to avoid the use of other proprietary publishing formats such as Shockwave Flash and other media formats requiring third-party plug-ins. We use other technologies, such as Javascript, appropriately to avoid creating accessibility barriers. We focus on the use of "open" publishing standards, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Luton Borough Council tries to ensure that each page is correctly constructed from valid HTML and CSS. To this end, we display the W3C logos for html and css. Clicking either of these logos will cause the W3C validators to interrogate the current web page. If you believe you've found a page that does not validate, then please email feedback@luton.gov.uk with a link to the relevant page and we shall endeavour to correct it.
Related links:
 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
access.adobe.com
RNIB: designing accessible Web sites
AbilityNet
AUS Standards for Accessible Web Design
Bobby (CAST)
Microsoft® Acessibility
WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
Yahoo! Computers & the Internet for Disabilities
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