Our commitment and approach to maintaining an accessible website
Waterford County Council is committed to:
This website's conformance with official accessibility guidelines
The website currently has WAI – A conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Our most recent web accessibility audit for this website was in April 2010.
Areas for improvement and time-lines
We are aware of some areas on the website where accessibility can be improved. We are currently working to achieve this. We hope that this website will maintain "Double-A" conformance with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 , apart from some issues outlined below.
Areas for improvement, time-lines for improvement and alternatives
| Section of website | Need for improvement | Time-line for improvement | Alternative access |
| Navigation |
Make main navigation keyboard accessible. |
By end 2010 |
E-mail us at webteam@waterfordcoco.ie
Write to us at Webteam, IT Department, Civic Offices, Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Phone us on ++ 353 (058) 22000
Fax us on 00 353 (058) 42911 |
| Documents |
Convert the most important PDF's and Microsoft Word Document to accessible HTML |
Ongoing - newer versions of Adobe and Microsoft will allow generation of accessible documents. |
As above |
| Colour of Design |
Insufficient Colour Contrast |
By end 2010 |
As above |
How to send feedback on this website's accessibility
We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website
- E-mail us at webteam@waterfordcoco.ie
- Fax us on 00 353 (058) 42911
- Phone us on ++ 353 (058) 22000
- Visit us at Civic Offices, Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland (directions to get to us are available).
- Write to us at Webteam, IT Department, Civic Offices, Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Accessibility features of this website
- Resizeable text – to make reading the screen more comfortable.
You can either use your browser settings, or you can use one of the three sizes shown in the top right-hand corner of the screen A – A - A
- Compatibility with screen-readers – so people using screen readers can use this site with no interference or having to adjust their settings. We use cascading style sheets and run our pages through an accessibility checker to ensure pages in our website are compatible with screen readers.
- Have the site read to you – For anyone who has difficulty reading the screen or who might be more comfortable listening to words being read.
The site can be read aloud to you by using Browsealoud. Once you have added this software to your own PC, Browsealoud will work automatically with Windows for use with Internet Explorer 4 upwards or Netscape Navigator.
- Read our Using Our Site section for added information.
