accessibility

Accessibility

Our site has been designed with our target users in mind and we have consulted residents and staff in designing the site.

We have created a website that is designed to be accessible for the widest possible audience. This includes providing access for people with disabilities who may have special needs.

Make this website talk

You can listen to this website with BrowseAloud, which is free to website visitors and can be easily downloaded from the BrowseAloud Website. Find out more about listening to this website.

Access for people with disabilities

People with disabilities, such as a visual impairment, may use assistive technologies to use the internet. Assistive technologies are products used by people with disabilities to help accomplish tasks that they cannot do easily otherwise.

Assistive technology comes in many different forms, some of these include:

Speech synthesis (speech output)
Alternative keyboards or switches
Braille and refreshable Braille
Screen magnifiers
Sound notification
Screen readers
Speech recognition
Text browsers
Voice browsers

The Homes for Haringey website has been built so that people using these technologies can access and use the information available.

W3C

This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices. The site displays correctly with current browsers, and using standard XHTML code means that any future browsers will also display this website correctly.

Web Accessibility Initiative – Triple A Conformity

This website conforms to the Triple A level of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformity with these Guidelines helps to make the web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.

There may be a few pages that do not conform to all the guidelines. While every effort is made to ensure the whole site conforms, with so many contributors, this is an ongoing process.

If you have any problem accessing any information on the site, please contact us and we will try to provide the information in a suitable manner.

Translation and interpreting

This website has pages and leaflets available in other languages. Go to the homepage and click on the available languages (French, Kurdish, Turkish, Somali and Albanian) to navigate the translated content.

For more information about other translation and interpreting services we offer please visit our Translation and interpreting page.

Legibility

If you are experiencing problems with reading the content on this website, or find that it is uncomfortable to read, you can change the default settings in your browser. This will make the fonts appear bigger on the pages or alter the colours of the pages. Depending on which browser you are using, the settings can be changed in either the Preferences or Options menu.

For further information on the above, please visit the RNIB website.

Download information

On this website you will find documents in PDF format, which means they can only be viewed with Adobe Acrobat. You need to have Adobe Acrobat reader installed, or if you do not currently have it, you can download it from the Adobe website for free