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Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council,
Town Hall, Coton Road,
Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
CV11 5AA
Town Hall, Coton Road,
Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
CV11 5AA
Tel: 024 7637 6376
Accessibility
Site Features
The following features have been provided to enhance accessibility. For website usage and performance statistics, information related to PDF's, and the different ways of navigating through the site please view 'About this Site'.
- The site uses the Government access key system.
- Option to increase or decrease the text size
- Option to browse the site in a Low Graphics style i.e. text only.
- A standardised left hand menu across the site based on the Local Government Navigation menu.
- A "breadcrumb trail" of links showing your position in the site.
- Frames are not used on the site.
- All images have meaningful alternative text.
- Colour choice has been maintained to allow a high level of contrast. However if you need to change colours this is possible through your standard browser settings. Please see the notes below for more details on the options available.
- This is speech enabled website. Browsealoud is a free and simple to download program which will read text on subscribing web sites such as this one and other partner websites in the County of Warwickshire.
Once you have the software installed all you have to do is scroll your mouse over the text and browsealoud will read it out loud. It will also read hyperlinks and menus so navigation becomes much more simple too. The pitch, choice of voice and speed can also be altered to your liking.
Controlling text and colours in your web browser
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 are 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 to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.
If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet, the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
- Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options which appear, select 'Internet options....'
- Click on the 'General' tab
- Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
- To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'
- To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'
- Click OK (and again if necessary)
- Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options which appear, select 'Text size'
- Select your desired text size
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Mac
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
- Select the 'edit' menu at the top of your window
- From the options menu which appear, select 'preferences'
- Click on 'web content'
- Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'
- Return to the list of preferences
- Click on 'web browser'
- Select 'language/fonts'
- Select the font size you require
Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator
Text
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category
- Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. Select the required 'Size'.
- Next to the Variable Width Font field is a drop down box: select the option required for this and the fixed Width Font box. Again select the 'Size' as required.
- To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'
- Click 'OK'
Colours
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'preferences'
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colours' category
- Select a colour button to change colours of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links.
- To override the colours used by the designer of the web page, select 'Always use my colours, overriding document'
- Click 'OK'
Firefox
- Select the ‘tools’ menu, then click ‘options’, then click ‘fonts & colours’.
- Choose the font you want to use, and tick ‘always use my fonts’ check box, then click ‘OK’.
