Accessibility Statement

St Edmundsbury Borough Council has developed this website to serve the largest possible audience by addressing the needs of people and systems with differing abilities.This website endeavours to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

There may be some pages that do not conform to all the guidelines. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the whole site conforms, this is an ongoing process and some content may not reach the standards in all areas.

The site displays correctly with current browsers, and using standard XHTML code means that any future browsers will also display this website correctly.

Screen sizes from 800px in width should display this site correctly without horizontal scrolling.

This website relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 4 and below and Netscape 4 and below. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with unpredictable presentation results. The decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

For those using screen readers, the navigation comes before the content on each page - at the start of the navigation you have the option to skip to the content.

The pages on this website are all printer-friendly - just page headings and the page content will appear on any printouts you make.

Structure and presentation have been largely separated.

All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to.

All informational images contain an ALT tag and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute.

Increasing text size -
If you find the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily in your browser settings. To do this you should simply adjust your browser's 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.

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Those in purely decorative graphics or used for layout include null ALT attributes.

All main navigation items can be accessed through access keys on your keyboard. On Windows, press ALT + access key and on Macintosh press Control + access key - then press Enter:

Page Content - h
Site Specific Policies - 2
General Policies - 1
Maps - 3
Appendices - 4
Glossary - 5
Contact Details - 6
Site map - 7
Accessibility Statement - k

Contact us
We aim to make this website accessible to everyone. If you experience any kind of problem or have any feedback about it please e-mail localplan@stedsbc.gov.uk