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Accessibility Information

Web Accessibility

Wansbeck Online is striving to comply with all of the Priority 1 and 2 accessibility checkpoints across its web presence, as established in the World Wide Web Consortium?s (W3C) web accessibility initiative (WAI). The WAI promotes a high degree of usability and accessibility for people with disabilities. The W3C promotes good practice amongst the web community via initiatives like WAI (http://www.w3.org/WAI/) Web Contact Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.).

It is possible that some of our older pages might not currently conform to these standards. However, we are actively engaging with content providers across Wansbeck Online to ensure that all future web pages are compliant with W3C guidelines for accessibility.

If you would like further information or are experiencing problems accessing Wansbeck Online website please contact wansbeckonline@wansbeck.gov.uk.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

1 Home page
2 A to Z
3 Sitemap
4 Search
5 Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
6 Help
7 Complaints
8 Copyright
9 Contact us
0 Accessibility (this page)
C Consultation
K Key Documents
N News
O Online Services
P Privacy Statement
T Terms of Use
W What?s On

Making changes to your operating system

Advice from the BBC showing users how to make full use of accessibility settings in browsers and operating systems.
Advice for Microsoft users.
Advice for Apple users.
Advice for Linux users.

Accessibility References

W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.

Accessibility Software

JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility Services

Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.