Using the Site
The website has four main areas:
The header contains fixed links to
accessibility areas and a keyword search facility. This navigation
remains the same on all main trust web pages.
The secondary navigation contains the trust's
main global navigation. This navigation remains the same on all
main trust web pages. Once a global navigation item is selected,
related sub-links appear below it in the same column.
The middle column is the information area. The
middle column also includes the breadcrumb trail. The breadcrumb
trail is a navigation aid that shows you where you are on the
website and allows you to quickly access upper levels of the site.
Some pages will also hold related document downloads and links.
The footer, at the bottom of the page, contains
accreditation and partner logos
Access Keys
Most browser's support jumping to specific links by typing
certain keys defined on the website. In Windows, you can press ALT
plus the listed access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control
plus the list access key. Pressing ENTER will then
take you on to that page.
All Pages on this site define the following access keys:
Access Keys
| S |
Skip Navigation |
| 1 |
Home Page |
| 4 |
Search |
Text Version
This site has the option to view a text only verion in both high
and low contrast by clicking on the ''Text Version' link (see link
at the top of this page).
Images
Visual Design
Controlling text and colours in your web browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer for PC
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
- Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options which appear, select 'Internet
Options...'
- Click on the 'General tab'
- Click on the button marked 'Accessibility'
- To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore
font sizes specified on Web pages'
- To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox
marked 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'
- Click OK (and again if necessary)
- Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options, which appear, select 'Text Size'
- Select your desired text size
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Apple Mac
- Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser
- Select the 'edit' from the menu at the top of your window
- From the options menu which appear, select 'preferences'
- Click on 'web content'
- Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'
- Return to the 'list of preferences'
- Click on "web browser"
- Select 'language/fonts'
- Select the font size you require
Instructions for users of Netscape
Navigator
Text:
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose
'Preferences'
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category
- Next to 'For' the encoding' should read Western to tell the
computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size'
select 18
- Next to the Variable Width Font field is a drop down box:
Select 'Arial'.
- The Fixed Width Font box should already read 'Courier New'.
From 'Size' select 18
- To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page,
select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified
fonts'
- Click "OK"
Colours:
- Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose
'Preferences'
- Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colours' category
- Select a colour button to change colours of text, background,
unvisited links or visited links
- To override the colours used by the designer of the web page,
select 'Always use my colours, overriding document'
-
Click "OK"
Viewing PDF documents
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication
of large and complex documents, and for a number of applications
forms. Please note that Abode Acrobat documents can be converted
back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service
To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader
installed: click the link below to download the software
| Click
icon to download software
Colour Contrast
This site has the option 'Change Contrast' (see link to top of
the page). This increase the page contrast by switching the text to
yellow and the background to black. This could help some people to
better read the site's content. The page can easily be changed back
to normal contrast by clicking again on the 'Change Contrast'
link.
Accessibility statement
Trafford Housing Trust is committed to ensuring accessibility of
its Web site for people with disabilities. New and updated Web
content produced by our organisation will conform to W3C/WAI's Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level AA.
Standards Compliance
Most pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with
all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines. The homepage is Bobby AA compliant (level
2).
This site validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
The stylesheets on this site are CSS 1.
The following are conformance badges relating to the
accessibility and technical standards of this website.
Use of Assistive Technologies
Assistive technologies are products used by people with
disabilities to help accomplish web tasks that they cannot
accomplish otherwise or could not do easily.
Some assistive technologies rely on output of other user agents,
such as text browsers, voice browsers, multimedia players and
plug-ins. Assistive technology comes in many different forms, some
of these include;
- Alternative keyboards
- Braille
- Screen magnifiers
- Screen readers
- Speech recognition
- Scanning software
- Tabbing through structural elements
- Text browsers
- Voice browsers
All our newly developed web pages are tested against as many
types of assistive technologies as we can to make the pages more
accessible. If you are unable to access any information using any
assistive technology then please contact us and we will try to find
an alternative way for you to access or be provided with the
information.