We are committed to making this website as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, including users who may be blind, partially sighted, or have a physical disability.
Accessible design features
The design of our website includes a number of accessibility features including:
- A common design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled users, and allowing text sizes to be changed to suit the users needs.
- Ensuring that all images used in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts"), as required by internationally-recognised Web accessibility guidelines.
- We strictly avoid the use of framesets throughout the website.
- The website has been developed using Cascading Style Sheets and a method known as 'liquid design.' This ensures that all content remains visible regardless of screen size or device.
- This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets.
- This website is best viewed using browser versions 5 or above (Internet Explorer & Netscape Navigator) & Firefox but the site can still be viewed by earlier browsers.
Browsealoud speech enabled website
Visitors to Barnetjobs.org.uk may listen to the website content by using Browsealoud. Browsealoud is a free tool which is used to speech enable a website. It may assist the following:
- People with dyslexia
- People with a mild visual impairment
- People with low literacy and reading skills
- People for whom English is not their first language
Read more about Browsealoud and how to use it on this website.
Text sizing
A common design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled users, and allowing text sizes to be changed to suit the users needs. We have been careful to make sure that we have not fixed the size of the textual information on the website so that visitors who wish to can alter the font size on the screen to make it easier to read.
There are a number of ways to change the text size in your browser, the easiest way is to follow the following steps:
(In Internet Explorer)
- Select the 'View' menu.
- Select the 'Text Size' option from the menu.
- Click on the text size you want to view.
(In Netscape Navigator)
- Select the 'View' menu.
- Select the 'Increase Font' option from the menu.
- Click on the text size you want to view.
(In Firefox Mozilla)
- Select the 'View' menu.
- Select the 'Text Size' option from the menu.
- Click on the text size you want to view.
Using your mouse scroll wheel to increase (or decrease) the size of text
It is also possible to increase the size of the text by holding down the ctrl key on the bottom left hand row of the key board whilst using the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase (or decrease) the size of the text.
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts control various browser functions and are often a useful and quick way of navigating through a site.
For the vast majority of browsers, use your Tab key to navigate forward through links (use Shift + Tab to go backwards), and Enter to activate the link.
Many other keys can be used, and will vary depending on the browser and operating system you are using. To find the shortcuts for your browser, follow these steps if your computer is running Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator on Windows:
- Internet Explorer - Press your F1 key to open the online help and in the index, type "keyboard shortcuts", select the required option and click "display".
- Netscape Navigator - Press your F1 key to open the online help and in the index, type "keyboard".
- Firefox -Mozilla - Press your F1 key to open the online help and in the index, select "keyboard Shortcuts".
Report an accessibility problem
If you encounter an accessibility or technical problem with any page on this site, please contact us.
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