Upper Bridge parish

We have designed this website with improved access so that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Site, and, equally importantly, they can contribute to the Site more effectively thereby having an equal voice to the other members of their community. Web accessibility also benefits others, including people with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm, and people with changing abilities due to ageing.

Making content accessible, primarily for people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement and combinations of these, has made Your-Community Websites more accessible to the vast majority of users. The design features such as alternative text (to describe the function of the item), keyboard access and compatibility with assistive technology (such as screen readers), also benefit users of other devices as well. For example, people with slow Internet connections, devices that do not show colour, devices such as mobile phones (which can be used to access the Internet) that have tiny screens.

Because Parish Councils and Community Networks need to provide websites that are accessible. And because search engines such as Google are blind, it makes sense to create an accessible website, and so improve its search engine ranking.

Maintaining an accessible site is an ongoing process and we are continually working to offer a user friendly experience and to conforming to the UK government guidelines for websites. We developed the site in consultation with the Royal National College (UK's leading college of further education for people with sight loss). We are also working towards the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - considered to be the international standard for Web accessibility.

For instructions on how to adjust the appearance of this Website (text size and contrast colour schemes) and how to navigate this Website with a keyboard, click the Accessibility link at the top of any page of this website.