Accessibility Information
How to make this website easier to use
Introduction
We offer a range of ways to help you use this website if you are struggling with its standard appearance. For further information on the help available to you, please read on. To summarise, we offer the following aids, available from any page on this website:-
- The ability to adjust the size of text.
- The ability to change the foreground and background colours.
- A text-speaker, which literally reads aloud the content of pages and documents.
- Important and frequently requested information in a range of other languages.
About text size adjustment
We know that when it comes to text on a computer screen, a "one-size-fits-all" approach can severely hamper many people. That is why we hope our text-size adjuster will help if you are having difficulty reading our pages. You don't need a special browser to use it; just select the appropriate link, found under the main menu on every page, for increasing; decreasing or resetting the size of the text. If you have cookies enabled on your browser, you will only need to set the size once for all the other pages you visit on this site, even after you close your browser. If you don't have cookies enabled, you will need to re-select the appropriate size each time you load or refresh a page. You can also use this tool together with the colour-changer, for your increased comfort.
About alternative colours
We understand that browsing the internet can be a disappointing and frustrating experience for people with a visual impairment. If you are affected by partial-sightedness; dyslexia or colour-blindness, we hope that our website's colour-change tool will help you.
Currently we offer our pages with a range of alternative foreground and background colour combinations. You don't need a special browser to change them; just select the appropriate link from the options below and see which suits you best. If you have cookies enabled on your computer, these settings will be remembered even after you close your browser. You can also use this tool together with the text-size adjuster, for your increased comfort. Colour options available are:-
About hearing our site read aloud
Using the 'Listen' link at the start of every page on this website, you can have content read to you by your computer. The service, which you may have heard of before, is from a company called Dixerit UK Limited and the product is called DixerIT Plus. You can choose to hear just the links on a page; all the content on a page or selected areas of a page (by highlighting the area with your mouse before playing). Please note that you will need speakers or headphones plugged in; turned on and set to an appropriate volume to use this aid.
You web browser also needs to have a technology called JavaScript enabled in order for you to use the "play highlighted section" feature - however this is a standard technology that is built into nearly all web browsers, so unless you know it isn't enabled, it almost certainly is.
As well as normal web page content, DixerIT Plus can read the contents of PDF documents and convert RSS feeds into downloadable MP3 files. For the complete information on DixerIT Plus, please visit the DixerIT website.
About content in different languages
In order to ensure that we are providing the most accurate translations for you, we offer downloadable PDF documents containing the most important and frequently-sought information. Should you require additional information in any of these languages, those documents will also guide you on how to obtain it from us.
We presently offer translated information in the following languages, based upon census and other survey data relating to the demographic of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough:-
We regret that we are unable to provide information in any other languages at this time.
Finally
If you wish to contact us regarding any accessibility issues relating to this website, or indeed any such issue relating to our Service as a whole, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Further information on website accessibility and links to helpful resources
- The Disability Rights Commission. On the 1st October 2007 this was merged into a new Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- "DirectGov" UK government website - disability information page for people with all kinds of disabilities.
- Age Concern.
