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Accessibility
HTML pages on the Crime Reduction Website have been designed to be compliant with World-Wide-Web Consortium's Website Accessibility Initiative standard. To find out more about this initiative visit http://www.w3.org/WAI.
The site has also been designed with with a view accessibility issues for those who may have local restrictions on their internet use. For example many large organisations use firewalls to protect their network, these may prohibit the use of Flash or ActiveX on the user's machine. Use of these scripts has been minimised on the site and where possible a non-scripted alternative has been given.
Crime Reduction Website
Each webpage is accessible upon the Crime Reduction Website by using the access keys to allow the user to go to each area of the website. The pages are accessible using the following keyboard numbers and letters:
Key | Page | Address |
1 | Home page |
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2 | What's new |
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3 | Site map |
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4 | Search |
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5 | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) |
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6 | Help |
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7 | Complaints procedure |
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8 | Terms and conditions |
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9 | Feedback form |
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0 | Access key details |
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N | News |
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I | Ideas and Initiatives |
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L | Learning |
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P | Publications and publicity |
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R | Research |
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M | Mini-sites |
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D | Discussion Forum |
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Internet Explorer
You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours, and foreground and background colours of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also specify the colour used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special colour for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link.
This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours. You can set Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.
The simplest way to change the browser settings is to select Fonts from the View menu in Internet Explorer 4 or earlier or select Text Size from the View menu in Internet Explorer 5 and click on the text size you want to use. If you're using Mozilla Firefox then View > Text size will achieve the same.
For more control over browser setting select Internet Options from the View menu in Internet Explorer 4 or earlier or the Tools menu in Internet Explorer 5.
Internet Options allows you to changes fonts and background colours and use your own stylesheet to further customise the browser to your accessibility needs.
Netscape
You can specify which fonts and font sizes are used to display web pages in your browser. You can also select character-set encodings.
Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Open the Appearance group and click the Fonts category.
Choose an encoding to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use
Choose your default fonts from the Variable Width Font and Fixed Width Font pop-up menus. (Fixed-width fonts are often used for filling in forms.)
Click one of the following:
To specify that your default fonts are always used instead of the fonts chosen by a document's author, click "Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts."
To specify that page fonts are used only when they are available without downloading (saves time), click "Use document-specified fonts, but disable Dynamic Fonts."
To specify that page fonts are always used, click "Use document-specified fonts, including Dynamic Fonts."
If you view web pages in more than one encoding scheme (for instance, Western and Chinese), you can choose fonts and font sizes for each encoding.
Useful Links
UK Government Disability Site - Contains full information about the Disabilities Discrimination Act, parts of which apply to the Web as from 1st October 1999.
RNIB - The RNIB is there to help not only totally blind people, but also the one and a half million in the UK with serious sight problems.
World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative - This is becoming the web standard for making web pages accessible to all.
Last update: Monday, November 06, 2006