Hertfordshire County Councillors

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You can find out more about these guidelines at the following W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) site :

W3C WAI Level Triple-A Conformance Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.

Browsealoud - help with reading text

A considerable section of the population has difficulty reading printed or on-screen text. That is why hertscouncillors.org is enabled. Browsealoud is a small program that works with your browser to "read" out the content of the page. This means if you download and install Browsealoud you can hear the words rather than having to read them. Browsealoud software is free to download and free for you to use.

You may find this helpful if:

• You have problems reading
• English is not your first language
• you have Dyslexia
• Your sight is mildly impaired

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Accesskeys

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To use these accesskey shortcuts, Windows users should press the "alt" key together with the relevant number below, then "enter".
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This website uses the recommended UK Government accesskeys where they are relevant :

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• 3 Sitemap
• 4 Search
• 5 FAQs
• 6 Help
• 7 Contact us
• 8 Legal statements and assertions
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Note that accesskeys will not work on older browsers which do not support the W3C HTML 4.0 standards.

W3C Web Standards

An integral part of conforming to the W3C Accessibility Guidelines is the adherence to W3C Web Standards in the design and coding of all web pages on hertscouncillors.org.

By designing to Web Standards, the informational content of web pages becomes accessible to many more people, irrespective of their physical ability or the internet browsing device that they may be using.

The following W3C reference links lay down the content mark-up and styling standards that hertscouncillors.org has adopted, and that the web as a whole is moving towards :

W3C XHTML specification and guidelines

W3C CSS specification and guidelines

Read about how these standards are being applied here on hertscouncillors.org, by following the W3C Standards link below.

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