Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

Accessibility

Access keys

In a web browser an access key or accesskey allows a computer user to immediately jump to a specific part of a web page or website via the keyboard.

The keys defined in this website are as follows:

• S - Skip navigation
• 1 - Home page
• 2 - News
• 3 - Site map
• 4 - Search
• 5 - Frequently asked questions (coming soon)
• 6 - About this site
• 7 - Comments and complaints
• 8 - Terms and conditions
• 9 - Website feedback
• 0 - Access key details

Browser and operating systems

Due to inconsistencies between different browsers and operating systems, to use the access keys you need to hold down certain defined keys (set out below), then the relevant 'access key'.(as set out above)

For more information about how to navigate this site and find the information you are looking for, please use our page 'About this site', which includes a section called "Help to find your way around the website".

Changing text size

You can easily increase or decrease the text font size in your web browser so that content is easier to read.

Click on one of the 'Change text size', which appears at the top of every web page. This function uses JavaScript to change the stylesheet for you.

Alternatively you can change your browsers' font resizer in just few steps:

	Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) Open Internet Explorer. Go to 'View' at the top of the page. Scroll down to the 'Text Size' option with your mouse. Adjust Internet Explorer's font size settings by choosing 'Largest', 'Larger', 'Medium', 'Smaller' or 'Smallest'. Test each setting until you find a text font that is comfortable for you to read.
	Mozilla (Firefox 1.5-2/Netscape) Open Mozilla, Go to the 'View' tab at the top of the page. Select 'Text Size', then pick 'Increase', 'Decrease' or 'Normal'. Alternatively there are keyboard shortcuts that you can make the font larger in Mozilla or Netscape, to enlarge press [CTRL] and [+]. For the smallest size, press [CTRL] and [-]. To leave the font at medium, or normal, press [CTRL] and [O].
	Firefox 3 Firefox 3 operate differently, you can zoom in/out as in magnification. You can opt to zoom in/out in text only. Find the 'View' tab at the top, select 'Zoom'. For text zoom only, enable 'Zoom Text Only'. Then click either 'Zoom in'/'Zoom out'. To reset, click on 'Zoom' > 'Reset'.
	Safari (Apple Macintosh) Choose the 'View' tab at the top of the page. Scroll down the tab until you get to 'Make Text Bigger' or 'Make Text Smaller'. Adjust the font by picking one of these options so that you can surf the web without straining your eyes.
	Opera Open Opera, go to the 'View' tab at the top of the page. Scroll down to 'Zoom'. and pick the appropriate percentage %: 200% makes the font larger, 50% makes the font smaller. To reset opt 100%.

Stylesheet

Cascading Style-Sheets (CSS) is a simple but powerful mechanism for defining the style and presentation of web pages, including fonts, colours, margins and borders.

This website uses stylesheets to control the look and feel of pages. Users can then view web pages using their preferred settings.

A separate stylesheet is also used to control the appearance of printed pages. When you print a page from this website, the page navigation will not be included, leaving more space for the content and to cut down the number of pages being printed out.

Attachments

Sometimes we publish large or detailed reports or publications, which will not fit in a single web page. Instead we convert the document into Adobe Portable Document Format or PDF file.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software which allows you to view and print Adobe PDF files and can be downloaded from Adobe's website. The latest versions of Adobe Reader support accessibility features such as keyboard shortcuts, support for screen readers and Braille output. Please see this part of Adobe's website for further information.

Click on the image to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine:

Please read our Disclaimer on downloading software by external websites.

Links

Most of the links to other pages in the website, pdf documents and external web sites include description of where the link leads so it can be read out by screen reader software.

Other useful sites

There are other sites which helps or provide information on how to view websites if you are partially impaired, blind or use specially adapted Input/Output devices.

• AbilityNet
• RNIB - using your PC
• MyWeb MyWay