Accessibility
Making our services accessible, including those provided online,
is a fundamental responsibility for Strathclyde Fire & Rescue.
Whether you require additional assistance in viewing our website or
if English is not your first language we want your online visit to
be easy, worthwhile and enjoyable.
Help in making our website look the way you want
My Web My Way was developed
by AbilityNet and the BBC as a source of accessibility help for all
computer users. It includes information on changing not only
the colours and text size and style of our website, but will
explain how these changes can be made to affect every site you
visit if you wish.
Accessibility features
We offer the following accessibility features on our site:
- pages are short and simple with a standard style across the
website
- a search facility
- a version designed to assist reading for visitors with
dyslexia
- resizable text
Accessibility and usability of our site
Our website strives to uphold the principles and best practice
of the WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines (while trying to achieve AAA where
possible). While we aim to comply with the WCAG guidelines,
we recognise that web technology has moved on since their creation,
and a number of them are less applicable than at their time of
publication. Our central objective is users finding our site
accessible and usable in practice. As with all sites we
create, attention to the accessibility of the code and extensive
end user testing ensures that this is the case.
Our site's code
The site has been built to comply with standards (x)HTML and
CSS2. At every stage the code has been checked for
accessibility using a range of automated and (more significantly)
manual checks. In older browsers (Netscape and Internet
Explorer 4 and earlier) it will appear as an unstyled
document. All information and functionality will still
be accessible.
Translations
You can translate our site into 23 different languages using Google Translate. Strathclyde
Fire & Rescue is not responsible for the content or
accuracy of external websites.
Contact
We welcome feedback on the Accessibility and usability of our
website. If you have had any problems or any issues while
using our site, we would like to hear about it. Email, phone and
address details are on our Contact page. If you want to know a bit more
about Strathclyde Fire & Rescue's commitment to equality and
diversity please refer to our Equality & Diversity
page and if you want to know more information about any of our
services please refer to the relevant page.
