Accessibility
At Maldon-town.com we have worked hard to ensure that all our media is accessible to people who have visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairments.
Accessibility is a partnership between site producers and the creators of the operating system, browser, and specialist assistive technologies which many disabled users employ to allow them, for example, to view websites in easier-to-read colours, with larger fonts, or as spoken text.
As such technologies have become more available and sophisticated, we will:
- ensure that its media work well with these assistive technologies to ensure an accessible experience for disabled users;
- provide Accessibility Help below site which will guide users in customising their computers (either by explaining the accessibility features of their operating system or browser, or by introducing them to the range of assistive technologies which are available) to provide them with the most accessible web experience, not just for our website, but all websites;
- in those instances where the specific accessibility needs of some disabled user groups require us to create new or repurposed editorial content, we will do this, wherever appropriate, so that we become more inclusive to a wider audience online.
Accessibility Help
Your browser already includes a number of ways to change the way our web pages are displayed. Here's how to change settings using Internet Explorer:
To permanently apply font and colour changes
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Click on the three boxes to show ticks
Click on 'OK'
To enlarge text
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
Click on 'OK'
On the browser menu select 'view'
Click 'text size'
Choose the size of text
To change text and background colour
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Colour'
Deselect the 'Use Windows Colours' tick box
Select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour
Click on 'OK
'Select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour
Click on 'OK'
To prevent graphics and images appearing
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the Advanced tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading
Deselect the graphics options 'animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images'
by clicking on the boxes to remove the ticks
Click on 'Apply' then 'OK'
To change the size of the window
On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press F11
To change the colour of links displayed on a screen
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Click on 'Select ignore colours specified on Web pages' (should contain a tick)
Click 'OK'
Other options
Other options such as removing animation are available:
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the Advanced tab choose any of the options available to improve the visibility of the web pages.
Other Browsers
There are options to change the way pages are displayed on other browsers. Please refer to your browser's help or information section for details. If in doubt please contact us for help.
Images
We have used images throughout this web site to add interest and provide variety. These images have been kept as small as possible and should load quickly. In some cases you are able to click through to a larger version of an image from a thumbnail example.
Each image is accompanied by an Alternative Text or "ALT" tag which provides a description of an image or a function. ALT tags are accessed by placing your mouse over the image.
Printer friendly versions
Although we have aimed to make our core web site as accessible as possible to the widest number of people we have also provided additional printer friendly options.
Useful Downloads
Adobe
Some of the pages on this web site have been created in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Format Document) format. To view these documents you will need to download Acrobat Reader. You can get this from Adobe's web site.
PDF files cannot easily be read by access technology. Adobe have a web site which provides tools to help make PDF files more accessible to the visually disabled. These tools convert Adobe PDF documents into HTML or ASCII text which can then be read by a number of common screen reading programs that synthesize text as audible speech. The address for this site is http://access.adobe.com.
