Accessibility
DLG Legal Services has built this site to be accessible and usable to as many people as possible. This website is designed and built with consideration of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as part of their Web Accessibility Initiative.
Our aim is for the site to be designed to WCAG standards. Accordingly this website aims to facilitate equal access to people with disabilities using technologies other than standard web browsers, such as screen readers.
Here are some straightforward website accessibility guides that can enable you to:
- Understand our browser compatibility
- Utilise navigational aids
- Make this site talk
- Change the stylesheets
- Change the size of the text
- Reporting accessibility problems
Browser compatibility
Our sites fully utilise CSS (cascading style sheets) to separate content from presentation, reducing file sizes and increasing download speeds. Most images have been regulated to the CSS document and where possible text alternatives for graphical content have been provided.
The site is accessible to users whose browsers do not support JavaScript. It is also designed and tested for the latest and most popular browsers to minimise compatibility issues for users.
Navigational aids
All pages of the site are navigable with the keyboard, mouse, and other assistive devices such as BrowseAloud.
Make this site talk
This DLG Legal Services site supports BrowseAloud which is free and can be easily downloaded by website visitors, allowing them to listen to this website.
Click here to find out more about using BrowseAloud.
Style sheet, colours and text formats
You can import your own style sheet onto this website for your ease of access. This can be done in Internet Explorer by following these steps:
- Select ‘Tool’
- Select ‘Internet Options’
- Select the ‘Accessibility’ button
- Choose the corresponding checkboxes to ignore the font sizes, font styles and colours
- Then to use your style sheet, whilst in the same window, select the checkbox ‘Format document using my style sheet’
- Finally select your style sheet and select ‘OK’
[Note that from stage 3 you can alternatively simply choose to ignore the site’s colours, fonts and text sizes]
Adjusting text sizes
To quickly adjust the size of the text, follow these steps in Internet Explorer:
- Select ‘View’
- Then select ‘Text Size’
- Then choose your preferred text size
Reporting accessibility problems
We aim to make our sites as accessible to as many people as possible, but if you experience any specific difficulties with our pages, please do contact us and we will try to provide you with the information that you need.