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We want our web site to be as easy to use as possible for everyone including people with disabilities. This page should hopefully answer any questions you may have on this issue |
Settings
To get the best from the colour images contained on these pages we recommend you view with a colour depth greater than 256 colours.
Features
We use a common
design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled
users. you can change the text sizes and colour to suit your needs.
All images and graphical navigation buttons in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts"), as required by internationally-recognised Web accessibility guidelines.
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). This means you can 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.
Our site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's web-based conversion service.
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.
We try to ensure that each page is correctly constructed from valid HTML and CSS. 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
Microsoft® Acessibility
