About this site
Accessibility Statement
A website for all people, a website for Haringey
Our site is for all people. It has been designed with our target users in mind. We have created a website that is designed to be accessible for the widest possible audience – regardless of ability. This includes providing access for people with disabilities who may have special needs. Our new site does not use tables for layout, which helps to make it more accessible.
How do people with disabilities use the Internet
People with disabilities, such as a visual impairment, may use assistive technologies to use the Internet. Assistive technologies are products used by people with disabilities to help accomplish tasks that they cannot do easily otherwise.
Assistive technology comes in many different forms, some of these include:
- Speech synthesis (speech output)
- Alternative keyboards or switches
- Braille and refreshable Braille
- Screen magnifiers
- Sound notification
- Screen readers
- Speech recognition
- Text browsers
- Voice browsers
The Haringey website has been built so that people using the technologies listed above can access and use the information available.
W3C – Validation Service
This site is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices. The site displays correctly with current browsers, and using standard XHTML code means that any future browsers will also display this website correctly.
Web Accessibility Initiative – Double A Conformance
This website conforms to the Double-A level of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a minimum, whilst aiming for Triple-A conformance. The Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines helps to make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.
Exceptions
There may be a few pages that do not conform to all the guidelines.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the whole site conforms, with so many pages and contributors, this is an ongoing process. If you have any problem accessing any information on the site, please email us at content@haringey.gov.uk and we will endeavour to provide the information in a suitable format.
This site was developed in partnership with Penna Barkers.