County Waterford, Ireland
Accessibility Statement
Our commitment and approach to maintaining an accessible website
Invest in Waterford is committed to maintaining an accessible website. Our commitment to this is stated in Waterford Local Authorities “Accessible Information Policy”.
Invest in Waterford is committed to ensuring that this website achieves "Double-A" conformance with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0. This means that every page will comply with all checkpoints in the top 2 priorities of WCAG 1.0, to comply with the National Disability Authority's Code of Practice on Accessibility of Public Services and Information Provided by Public Bodies. The National Disability Authority's Centre for Excellence in Universal Design has an introduction to policy and legislation relevant to Universal Design in Ireland.
Invest in Waterford is committed to ensuring that any new additions to the website will achieve "Level AA" conformance to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Invest in Waterford is committed to ensuring that accessibility will feature in any future procurement requests for 3rd-party systems or upgrades to existing systems.
Statement of the website's conformance with official accessibility guidelines
The website currently conforms to WAI – AA. The most recent web accessibility audit for this website took place in April 2010.Areas for improvement and time-lines
We are aware of some areas on the website where accessibility can be improved. We are currently working to achieve this. We hope that this website will maintain "Double-A" conformance with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 , apart from some issues outlined below.
| Section of website | Need for improvement | Time-line for improvement | Alternative access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | Make main navigation keyboard accessible. | By end 2010 | E-mail us at webteam@waterfordcoco.ie Write to us at Webteam, IT Department, Civic Offices, Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland. Phone us on ++ 353 (058) 22000 Fax us on 00 353 (058) 42911 |
| Documents | Convert the most important PDF's and Microsoft Word Document to accessible HTML | Ongoing - newer versions of Adobe and Microsoft will allow generation of accessible documents. | As above |
| Colour of Design | Insufficient Colour Contrast | By end 2010 | As above |
How to send feedback on this website's accessibility
- E-mail us at webteam@waterfordcoco.ie
- Write to us at Webteam, IT Department, Civic Offices, Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, Co. Waterofrd, Ireland.
- Phone us on ++ 353 (058) 22000
- Fax us on 00 353 (058) 42911
Accessibility features of this website
- Resizeable text – to make reading the screen more comfortable.
You can either use your browser settings, or you can use one of the three sizes shown in the top right-hand corner of the screen A – A - A - Compatibility with screen-readers – so people using screen readers can use this site with no interference or having to adjust their settings. We use cascading style sheets and run our pages through an accessibility checker to ensure pages in our website are compatible with screen readers.
- Have the site read to you – For anyone who has difficulty reading the screen or who might be more comfortable listening to words being read.
The site can be read aloud to you by using Browsealoud. Once you have added this software to your own PC, Browsealoud will work automatically with Windows for use with Internet Explorer 4 upwards or Netscape Navigator.
