Accessibility
We aim to make this website accessible to all users without barriers to people with a physical disability. We do this by conforming to standards in the design of the site and by providing additional resources to users who may need them. We also test the site for various types of colour-blindness and have also carried out usability testing with a panel of users with different types of physical disabilities.
If you have any comments, observations or suggestions to help us improve the accessibilty of this site, please email webmanager@wandsworth.gov.uk
 Text only version
Audio version
Access keys
Visibility
Downloadable documents
Standards
Translations
Useful links
Text only version
There is a text only version that provides users with a simple and clean version without pictures and with options on how the pages on this site are displayed. Users who suffer with visual impairments may find this site easier to view and navigate. This site is hosted by Useablenet - experts in the field of website accessibility.
Text only website
Audio version
You can listen to the Wandsworth website being read aloud. This service is available to anyone who can listen to audio on their computer.
Simply click on the 'listen to this site' link on the grey bar at the head of the page to listen to the page you are on. You can choose from an number of options of how you want to listen and even save the page as an mp3 file to listen to later on your computer or mp3 player. Further help and information is available in the help page.
This service is aimed at users of the site who find it difficult to read the information on screen through physical or learning disability and to users who understand English but do not read it well.
Listen to the site being read aloud
Read our help pages
Access keys
We have set up access keys (short cut keys) to the main index pages of the website. Access keys help some users with visual or physical impairments to navigate through websites.
To use the access keys, hold Down the Alt key and press the number for the section you want to visit. Then press the Return or Enter key. Macintosh users should press Control + AccessKey.
Alt + 0 - Home page
Alt + 1 - Children and Young People
Alt + 2 - Community Services
Alt + 3 - Council and Government
Alt + 4 - Leisure and Tourism
Alt + 5 - Environment and Transport
Alt + 6 - Contact us
Alt + 7 - Search this site
Alt + 8 - My Wandsworth
Alt + 9 - Website help
Visibility
This website has been designed to work best with a display setting of 800 x 600 pixels, or 1024 x 768 pixels. Windows users can change their display settings in the control panel.
The colours used on the site are not used to convey any essential information and have been tested to ensure that they do not cause problems for users with different types of colour-blindness.
If you prefer to not use the text only version of the site, you can make changes in your web browser to increase the size of text on the pages and/or to remove all images.
You can also use our Contrast tool to apply a tint to your screen or our Magnifier tool that will allow you to magnify your screen display up to 32 times its normal size.
Internet Explorer
- Go to the View menu
- Select the Text size option and increase it to larger or largest
Advanced users may choose to use their own style sheets and set other options for personal accessibility. You can find out more about this and other useful information at www.microsoft.com/enable/training/ie6/default.aspx
Netscape and Mozilla
- Go to the View menu
- Select Text zoom and your preferred option
There are similar options in Netscape and Mozilla for customising the way you view pages. Visit help.netscape.com or www.mozilla.org for more information.
Adobe PDF documents
Most downloadable documents on this site are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). This format is a standard that has been adopted worldwide and allows files to be viewed and printed on a variety of platforms as they were intended to be seen.
You can download Adobe Reader free of charge at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
Adobe also provide users who have difficulty using pdf documents with a facility to convert them to appear as a normal website pages. Visit www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/main.html to find out how you can customise your Adobe Reader for your access needs.
Standards
All the main index pages and most of the rest throughout the Wandsworth site conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) definition of 'interoperable' code. This means that the site should work well across all types of browsers and forms the basis of making a website truly 'accessible'.
When a website makes use of stylesheets, rules set out by W3C also apply. The stylesheet for the Wandsworth site has been validated and achieved the W3C standard for interoperability.
Virtually all of the site conforms to level A of the W3C project (Web Accessibility Initiative or WAI) for accessibility.
We are committed to making this site fully accessible for all users. We will continue to validate the site content against the criteria of industry regulators and campaign groups as well as regularly carrying out usability audits with users of different types of physical disabilities.
Translations
Unfortunately we are not currently able to translate the material on our web site from English into all of the different languages spoken in the borough. To help non-English users, we have provided information on our interpreting service below, and a link to the free translation service, 'Babelfish' from Altavista which will translate the information on web pages from English into many other languages. The translation will not be perfect, but you should be able to understand it. You will find the translation service at babelfish.altavista.com.
You may also find the Audio version of this site useful if you are able to understand spoken English better than you can read it.
You can also find information about the Wandsworth Interpreting Service here.
 Welcome to Wandsworth - Sign language video.
Streaming presentation with Windows Media.
Useful links
Standards
Operating systems
Help
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