Web Accessibility Statement
The North Tipperary County Council website follows guidelines on accessibility set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) produces accessibility guidelines that are an internationally recognised benchmark of accessibility.
In designing this site, we have applied all appropriate WAI Priority 1 and Priority 2 criteria of the WAI's web content accessibility guidelines. All HTML documents on the site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, ensuring that they work with a wide variety of browsers. In addition to this, we have provided a number of additional features to make the website more accessible.
Changing Viewing Preferences
You are able to view this website in a variety of different text sizes and in a high contrast style. To change your viewing preference, choose from the icons in header above or choose a style from the list below.
Normal/Default
style
Large
Text
Extra
Large Text
High
Contrast styleIncreasing Text Size using your Browser
Please note that JavaScript must be enabled to access the above styles. If JavaScript is disabled you can resize text using your browser:
- To change text size using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, select Text Size from the View or Page menu and choose your preferred option. If you are using another browser, please refer to your browser help to learn how to resize text.
- To access the high contrast style,
Please note that the page layout may be affected by increasing the font size.
Printing
This website is optimised for printing. Simply print the page using your browsers PRINT option and the page will print out to fit the width of the paper.
Listen to this website with Browsealoud
Browsealoud
is a solution to speech enable website content. The software is free to
download and North Tipperary County Council pays an annual charge to speech
enable our web site. Browsealoud enables our web site to assist in the
navigation of our site for the following sections of the population:
- Low literacy and reading skills
- Where English is not the first language
- People with Dyslexic
- People with certain visual impairment
Shortcuts for Screen Readers
Users with screen readers (such as JAWS) can skip over the set of navigation links to access the main content directly using the hidden 'Skip to Main Content' link. We've also provided pages with heading structures to help you use your screen reader to access sections on the site directly. Just press the keys INS and F6 at the same time to get the list.
PDF and Microsoft Word
The website uses W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) technologies such as HTML and CSS wherever possible. However, in the past information has been provided on our sites in both Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) format. We have made certain important documents available as a HTML alternative (such as the County Development Plan, Customer Action Plan and Corporate Plan).
However, a number of documents on this site are only in PDF
format, which requires you to download and install the
free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Click on the icon to download
the Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.
If you cannot access the information in any PDF document please contact us at webmaster@northtippcoco.ie.
Our Promise
We are committed to making our website accessible to all people, regardless of ability. We will continue to closely monitor developments and changes in WAI guidelines and general website best practice.
If you feel that this website could be easier to use, or you have difficulty accessing any information please email webmaster@northtippcoco.ie
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