Maintaining an accessible site is an ongoing process and we are continually working to offer a user friendly experience. However, if you have any problems using this web site please contact us by email: webmanager@slough.gov.uk.
We aim to make our website, http://www.slough.gov.uk/, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are occasions where it is necessary to carry out maintenance on the site which means our website is unavailable for short periods of time. We have set a target for the site to be available at least 98% of each calendar month.
| Month | Availability as percentage |
|---|---|
| June 2007 | 99.98% |
| July | 99.99% |
| August | 99.99% |
| September | 99.99% |
| October | 99.99% |
| November | 99.99% |
| December | 99.98% |
| January 2008 | 99.99% |
| February | 99.99% |
| March | 99.98% |
| April | 99.03% |
| May | 99.94% |
| June | 99.98% |
This website provides shortcut key combinations for access to commonly used links and features. A full list of access keys provided on this site are listed below.
Numbered access keys are in line with the UK Government access keys standard.
Text can be resized in two ways:
A high contrast version of each page can be viewed by clicking on the 'high contrast' link at the top of each page. The high contrast version contains the same content, but displays significantly larger text as yellow on a blue background for those who find this aids readability.
All pages can be viewed without stylesheets enabled.
All pages except for some online forms have appropriate semantic header structure and hierarchy.
All pages contain the same primary navigation bar in the header, and the same set of links in the page footer.
All pages have home page, search and site map links that can be used by text-only browsers, screen readers and some conventional browsers.
All pages except online forms have a search field in the header.
Pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict, with the exception of the following pages:
All pages contain external stylesheets that validate as CSS 2.0.
This website has been designed to achieve level 'Double-A' compliance according to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Pages on this website comply with all priority 1 and priority 2 guidelines, with the following exceptions:
This website complies to the eGMS 3.0 UK Government metadata standard for websites, part of the e-GIF 6.1 framework. The IPSV metadata schema is used for specifying subject categorisation as required by eGMS.
Links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers can extract a list of links from a page, so the target for a link should be identifiable in this format.
No links contain direct references to javascript code, unless those links are themselves created through javascript. If javascript is turned off, all links can be followed in any browser.
There are no links that open a new window without warning. No new windows are opened automatically, for example when a page loads.
All images contained within HTML include descriptive ALT text.
Screen reader software is available for those who are not able to read from a monitor. This software reads out the content of web pages and provides means to navigate using the keyboard.
This symbol indicates a link will take you outside this website. Links will open in a new browser window.
