Accessibility

Web Accessibility

Our aim is to make Fareham Borough Council's website as accessible as possible by following standards and guidelines to ensure that the site can be used easily and effectively by everyone.

• We have access keys to assist users with keyboard navigation
• Our web pages are AA compliance in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web accessibility Initiatives (this is an external hyperlink), we are currently working on ensuring we meet AAA compliance
• Help on navigating your way around Fareham Borough Council's website
• Making the text larger or smaller along with a non graphics version is available on the homepage of our site in the top right hand corner www.fareham.gov.uk.
• We have a text to speech reader enabled on our website, Browsealoud. You can access Browsealoud through any pages on our website by selecting the Browsealoud logo in the Accessibility box within the left hand navigation.
• Technical information on browser compatibility and web site usage is also available
• We try to write in plain English. If you find a webpage that is difficult to understand please let us know by adding the page address into an e-mail to webmaster@fareham.gov.uk

Advice on how you can change your operating system

• Advice from the BBC (this is an external hyperlink) showing users how to make full use of accessibility settings in browsers and operating systems.
• Advice for Microsoft users (this is an external hyperlink)
• Advice for Apple users (this is an external hyperlink)
• Advice for Linux users (this is an external hyperlink)