Accessibility Statement

Accessibility

The Housing Agency are committed to making the information on this website accessible to all, regardless of ability. This statement outlines the provisions we have made to ensure a high standard of accessibility support throughout this web site. It has been designed in accordance with the WC3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It conforms to most of the priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints, subject to some clarifications as outlined below:

Standards compliance

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT or LONGDESC tag. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. There is an option for each user to increase or decrease the font size being used on the site.

Adobe Acrobat Files

Documents marked .PDF are saved in Portable Document Format. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view all PDF files. The Acrobat Reader software is available for downloading free of charge from the Adobe website. The free Reader allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. For more information on how to download the Reader, go to the Adobe Acrobat help page.

Adobe's accessibility website is full of information on the features and capabilities of Adobe products that enhance electronic document accessibility for people with disabilities such as blindness, low vision, and motor impairments.

Accessibility references

Maintaining Accessibility

The Housing Agency is committed to maintaining and monitoring the accessibility of this website. As part of this process we welcome any comment, suggestions or details of problems encountered from users.

Requirements

The browsers recommended for optimum use of this site are as follows: