Accessibility

Settings
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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

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