Accessibility & Help
Welcome to the Adur & Worthing Council Services website. This page will guide through using this website in a way that suits your needs.
Contents
- Using this Website
- What you Need
- Adjusting the Typeface Size
- Printing Pages
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
Using this Website
On every page of this website
Looking at the website from top to bottom, you will find the important accessibility tools available at the top. These options are:
- Skip Navigation: Allows you to ‘bypass’ the navigation links and takes you directly to the content. This is helpful if you use a screen reader or other speech device to allow you to access this website.
- Site Map: Gives you a broad overview of all the website sections. Useful if you rely on the keyboard to navigate through a website as it provides a logical list of all the website sections.
- A to Z Index: Lists all of the services and information you will find online on this website in an alphabetical list like an index of a book, allowing you to find the information or service you need quickly.
- Accessibility and Help: Takes you to this page you are reading now.
Below the accessibility tools is the Adur & Worthing Council Services logo which when clicked on will take you directly to the home page wherever you are on this website.
Underneath our logo is a series of eight tabs (which may appear as a list depending on your web browser) which are the main topics covered in this website. Clicking on one of these will take you to that section e.g. ‘Recycling’ or ‘Do It Online’. These are known as the topic tabs.
At the very bottom of each page (the footer) is our copyright and policy links which you can follow to find out about our data protection and linking policies. We also provide links to the two councils that are behind Adur & Worthing Council Services: Adur District Council and Worthing Borough Council.
The home page
The home page of the website features extra information. This includes:
- Current news and service bulletins: Clearly gives you the current and relevant information regarding our service, such as when there is an issue that you need to be aware of that may affect our service to you.
- Contact Details: Sometimes you just want quick access to our contact details and not need to click through an excessive amount of pages. That’s why we put our electronic, postal and telephone contact details on the front page.
All other pages
On every other page of the website, each page contains a navigation list on the left hand side called ‘Look for It.’ This section shows you where you are on the website as well as the sections that are contained within your current selection. For example if you choose Recycling from the topic tabs, you will find in the ‘Look for It’ section two further sections (as of writing: 6 July 2007) called What we can Recycle and Frequently Asked Questions. Clicking on either of these takes you to this section. They are underneath the Recycling topic because they are related to recycling.
What you Need
We have designed this website to just need a computer with a working Internet connection. We have not designed it to require any particular web browser or technology. We have tested it on the following web browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6/7
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5/2.0
- Opera 9
- Apple Safari
The website should as noted work fine in other web browsers too.
Adjusting the Typeface Size
If you are having difficulties reading the text on this website, you can easily change your web browser’s settings to use a larger (or indeed smaller) typeface that is more suitable for your needs.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6 (Windows)
- Go to the View menu
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that pops out, select from Smaller, Small, Medium, Large and Larger .
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)
With the Mouse
- Select Page from the toolbar below where web addresses are entered. (It is located on the right in between Print and Tools)
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that pops out, select from Smaller, Small, Medium, Large and Larger .
You can also use the zoom control located at the bottom right hand side of the Internet Explorer window.
With the Keyboard
- Hold down Ctrl (Control) and press either:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
Firefox
With the Mouse
- Go to the View menu
- Click the Text Size menu item
- From the sub menu that appears select either: Increase, Decrease or Normal .
With the Keyboard
- Hold down Ctrl (Control) and press either:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
- 0 : to reset the page size to default
Opera
With the Mouse
- Go to the View menu
- Click on Zoom
- Select from the sub menu the page zoom you require, with 100% being the default page size.
With the Keyboard
Using the numeric keypad with ‘Number Lock' on, use:
- + : to enlarge the page
- - : to shrink the page
- * : to reset the page size to the default
Safari
- Go to the View menu
- Select Increase Text Size to enlarge the page
- Select Decrease Text Size to shrink the page
You can also use Ctrl + F2 to access the Apple menus with your keyboard, and use the cursor keys to move around the menu structure, and select your chosen option by pressing return.
Printing Pages
We live in an electronic world but we all sometimes want a hard copy of what we have read. That's why this website allows you to print a page in beautiful quality without needing to fiddle with selecting text or finding the ‘printer friendly' option. Just click print and the page will be printed in full without all the unnecessary information you don't need.
Try it now and be relieved at the stress free way to paper.
- Note: This applies to most modern web browsers. Some older browsers such as Internet Explorer 3 may require you to select the required text.
Please also consider whether you really need to print the pages on our website.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
We all read some letters such as HTML and wonder what they might mean, or possibly what an abbreviation means. To help you make sense of these, look out for text with a dotted underline. Move your mouse over one of these and you will see in most web browsers a little ‘tip' pop up explaining the definition for you. Some web browsers make this even more obvious as the mouse pointer changes to a ' ?'
