Accessibility

Web accessibility

We are always working towards providing you with a website that complies with current Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These guidelines explain how to make your website accessible to people with disabilities so it benefits to all.

Customise the way you view this website

In order to make this website easier to read and navigate, you can change display settings such as:

• Text size
• Colour and contrast
• Screen magnification
• Style sheets

The BBC’s website “My Web My Way” offers help, in plain English on adjusting these and other features in your specific operating system and browser.

Visual Design

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser supports it, style sheets can be disabled or over-written to customise the appearance of the website, to your preference. If the style sheet is disabled, the content on this website will still be readable.

Access Keys

Each of the main areas of the web site have an AccessKey assigned to them. This means that in certain browsers* you can use the keyboard to jump to any main area from anywhere else in the site.

*Please note that AccessKeys are not supported by Internet Explorer 3, or Netscape 4.

AccessKeys work slightly differently on Macs and PCs. Below is a list of the main areas of the site, and the keyboard commands that will jump to them.

Home
PC alt + 1 > rtn Mac ctrl + 1
 
About Us 
PC alt + 2 > rtn Mac ctrl + 2
 
News
PC alt + 3 > rtn Mac ctrl + 3

Directorates
PC alt + 4 > rtn Mac ctrl + 4
 
Advice
PC alt + 5 > rtn Mac ctrl + 5
 
Safer City Wards
PC alt + 6 > rtn Mac ctrl + 6
 
Recruitment
PC alt + 7 > rtn Mac ctrl + 7
 
Contact Us
PC alt + 8 > rtn Mac ctrl + 8

'alt + N > rtn' means that you must hold the alt key and the N key at the same time, then press the Return key.

'ctrl + N' means that you must hold the ctrl key and the N key at the same time.

Increasing text size

If you find the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily in your browser settings.

• If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest.
• If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the View menu and choose Increase Font until the text is the size you require.

Image

Used 'alt-tags' which describe the content of images.

Links

Made our hyperlinks meaningful, ie not used 'click here' on its own.

Browser

This website will function and look as intended in browsers that support these standards. The most common of these are:

• Firefox 1.5 +
• Internet Explorer 6.0+

If you do not have one of these browsers installed or are unable to upgrade, you may find the website easier to use by disabling CSS

Have the website pages read out aloud to you

This website is Browse Aloud enabled. This will enable content to be read out loud to the user as simple as hovering over the paragraph or word. For more information on how Browse Aloud can help you, see our Browse Aloud page.

Please let us know of any problems you may have encountered, or of any features that you have found particularly useful by emailing the City of London Police Webmaster.