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Accessibility

We have tried to make this site as accessible as we can to every one, following the guidelines set out by the World Wide Web Consortium. Below you can find information on how we have adapted the site to make it easier to use.

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 + 1 - Home page
Alt + 2 - Children and young people
Alt + 3 - Parents, carers, family and friends
Alt + 4 - Professionals and volunteers
Alt + 5 - The board
Alt + 6 - Contacts
Alt + 7 - News
Alt + 8 - Website help
Alt + 9 - Report abuse

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Have this site read aloud

You can now listen to the Wandsworth Safeguarding website being read aloud. This service is provided by Readspeaker and is available to anyone who can listen to audio on their computer.

Click on the link below and simple controls will allow you to listen to the whole page with links or just the text. You can also save the page as an mp3 file to listen to later on your computer or mp3 player.

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.

Have this site read aloud.

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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.

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Web 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.

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Useful links

Standards
World Wide Web Consortium
Web Accessibility Initiative

Operating systems
Microsoft Accessibility
Macintosh Accessibility
Linux Accessibility

Help guides
BBC - My Web My Way

If you have any problems using this site or wish to make a comment then please email us or complete the feedback form

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