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Accessibility Statement

County Sligo VEC has made every effort to ensure that the design of this website conforms to web standards for both usability and accessibility. Our aim is to provide an equivalence of access to the information on this website for all our users.

We have followed the W3C's WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines in the creation of this website and we have used the latest technologies available to structure the website. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices.

The website uses XHTML code to provide document structure and CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) to provide document formatting. By following guidelines set down by the W3C we are trying to make sure that all the information on our web site is available to everybody: not just the text, but the information contained in the images and other media. Using these technologies also allows us to provide a website that loads faster, and displays in more devices. The website template set contains valid XHTML and CSS code and conforms to the Web Accessibility Initiative's AA guidelines. In addition, the website has passed all Priority 2 Guidelines.

The Sligo VEC web accessibility project is still on-going and we hope to provide an even better service to all our users in the future. If you have a problem accessing any information on the site, please contact us and we will endeavor to provide the information in an appropriate format.

Browser Compatibility

We have ensured that the website template set displays on all current browsers including Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 7+, Firefox 1+ and Mozilla/Netscape 7+. If you do not have one of these, we recommend you upgrade as these browsers support web standards which in turn support the provision of fully functional web services for all users.

Images

All images used on the site contain descriptive alt text. In addition, images have been moved into the background where possible.

Tables

Where tables are used, we endeavor to ensure that they are written using semantic markup which includes properly labeled header cells to allow screen readers to render the data intelligently. We also endeavor to only use tables in page content where there is a real need for them, in the case of tabular data, for example.

Links

We endeavor to ensure that link text is written to make sense out of context. We have tried to avoid the use of the words 'click here' for link text.

Increasing the text size

If you find that the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily by locating the built in text re-sizing function which is found below the banner to the left of the search textbox. You can also increase the text size within your browser:

• If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest.
• If you use Mozilla Firefox, go to the View menu and Text Size: increase until the text is the size you require

Breadcrumbing

Breadcrumbing is used on the website to add extra navigation information and to help users locate themselves within the website.