Website Accessibility

Overview

Westport Town Council is covered by the Disability Act 2005.

To comply with these standards, Westport Town Council is committed to making all of the Council's online materials as accessible as possible. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility of our website.

The site is designed in accordance with the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and conforms to most priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints. Our goal is to meet WAI Level A compliance on all webpages. WAI Level AA (Double A) and AAA (Triple A) compliance will be met whenever possible and “Double A”  is the minimum target goal for webpage accessibility.

We have provided the following accessibility features to make the website more accessible:

• Use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout control of presentation
• All images have corresponding alternative text
• All data tables and forms contain additional mark-up that may help assistive technologies such as screen readers
• Skip link navigation to allow visually impaired users to easily move around on a web page.
• All documents are marked up appropriately, with meaningful links and correct heading structures.
• Where possible, we have attempted to provide documents in multiple formats. 

If you find that a page (or pages) of this website are difficult to use, please email us at webmaster@mayococo.ie with details about the page and the problem(s) it presents for you. We will attempt to provide a solution to make the website more accessible to you.

Finally, all new content published to the site is published in accessible HTML, wherever possible.

Known Accessibility Issues

Unfortunately, due to time and cost constraints, we have not been able to make the entire website contents Accessible.  Some known areas of non-conformance include:

• Scanned copies of documents, mostly in PDF format.
• Documents available only as non-Accessible compliant MS Word or PDF format.
• Map-based information.
• Certain pages containing invalid XHTML.
• Missing mandatory Meta Data fields (e.g. language, description and keywords).

For assistance with any of the above documents, contact us.

A Note on PDF and Microsoft Word Format Documents

The website uses W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) technologies wherever possible. However there remains a number of documents that use the Portable Document Format (PDF) and/or Microsoft Word.

While we have attempted to provide accessible alternatives for these documents you may find certain documents on this site are available only in these formats, which require you to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you cannot access the information in any PDF or Word document please email webmaster@mayococo.ie or phone us at (094) 90 24444.

Give Us Your Feedback

If you would like to give us your feedback on the Accessiblity of this or another of Mayo County Council's websites, please email the webmaster.