Accessibility

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to making its web site as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, including users who may be blind, partially sighted, or have a physical disability.

The design of our website includes a number of accessibility features including:

• A common design throughout rather than providing text only pages for disabled users, and allowing text sizes and colours to be changed to suit the users needs.

• Ensuring that all images used in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts"), as required by internationally-recognised » Web accessibility guidelines. All graphical navigation buttons are similarly ALT-tagged.

• By using Cascading Style Sheets the main content is presented first so that if you are accessing the site using a screen reader you do not get a long list of navigation options read out first every time you enter a new page.