How to get the most from the site's accessibility features
By Jack Latimer
Text size
There will be a choice of text sizes on your web browser. This is a setting on your own computer rather than in the Living Here website, which may be useful to you. If you change this setting any website you open will always use the largest text. The exact way to do it depends on your browser. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer choose 'View' in the grey bar across the top of the screen. Then choose 'Text size'. Select the size you want, from largest to smallest. There is more guidance about this at the Website Accessibility Initiative website: changing text size on your browser
Access keys
The following standard access keys are available on all pages, in line with the UK Government Access Keys Standard. To use the access keys with Internet Explorer and navigate using only the keyboard, press the 'Alt' key on Windows or the 'Ctrl' key on a Mac and any of the keys below simultaneously, then press 'Enter'.
- S Skip navigation
- 0 Accessibility information [this page]
- 1 Home
- 2 What's new?
- 3 Site map
- 4 Search
- 6 Help
- 8 Privacy statement
Additionally, the following keys provide access to specific areas of this site:
- i Introduction
- w West-side stories
- s Virtual museum
- q Notes & queries
- L Local studies
- c Events
- d Things to do
Standards compliance
This site conforms to the W3C's WAI Accessibility Guidelines, Level Single-A. However, it also implements the majority of recommendations at Double-A and Triple-A levels.
The code is valid XHTML 1.0 and valid CSS2, except for specific instances in which this is not possible due to the current limitations of the Microsoft ASP.Net system. All links will open in your current browser window unless specified.
If you have any problems accessing this site, or any other technical difficulties, please contact us by e-mailing info@communitysites.co.uk.