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Accessibility

This website has been designed to be accessible and inclusive to as many people as possible.

Cascading style sheets are used for visual layout. All sizes are set relatively so that the pages will increase or decrease with the size of your browser window, screen resolution and text size selection.

All images used in this site include a descriptive ALT attribute. ALT attributes for purely decorative graphics are set to 'Blank'.

My Web My Way

Do you need help in making the web easier to use? The 'My Web My Way' website from the BBC explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.

This website

Changing Text Size

Microsoft Internet Explorer

In the menu that runs across the top of the page, click on View, then from the drop down list that appears select Text Size. A further drop down menu will appear to the side, from which you can choose a size to suit your preference.

Change text size in Internet Explorer

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can change the text size on the page on the fly, by holding down the left Ctrl button on your keyboard, and moving the mouse wheel back and forth.

Netscape Navigator / Mozilla / Opera

Depending on which version of Netscape you are using, you can change the size of the text by clicking on View and then selecting either the Text Zoom or Zoom option, then select either a percentage value or use Smaller/Larger.

Change text size in Netscape

Change Text Color

If you are using Internet Explorer you are also able to change the colour scheme of web pages:

Click Tools, Internet Options
From the box that appears click on Accessibility (bottom right of the box). A new box will appear
Click to add a tick in the square next to 'Ignore colors specified on Web pages' then click OK
In the Internet Options box (which should still be open; if not, open it again) click the Colors button
From the box that appears uncheck the box marked Use Windows colors.
Now you can select what colours you would like to see used on the website for text, background and links
Click OK to confirm your changes, and OK to close the Internet Options box.

Access Keys

Access keys produce keyboard shortcuts as an alternative form of navigation and are supported in most browsers.

To use access keys:

Windows based system - press the 'Alt key' with the access key and then enter or return

Macintosh system - press the 'Ctrl key' with the access key and then enter or return.

This may vary using different types of software.

The following access keys are used on this site:

s - Skip navigation
t - Top of page
h - Home page
a - A-Z of services
n - News
w - What's on
j - Jobs
c - Contact us
1 - help

If you have any questions or comments relating to this website please contact Jayne Miles
Telephone: 01304 872013
E-mail: website@dover.gov.uk