Accessibility statement for Wokingham Borough Council

How accessible our websites are

This accessibility statement applies to Wokingham.gov.uk and the following microsites: wsh.wokingham.gov.uk; fostering.wokingham.gov.uk; wokinghamcountryside.co.uk; sendiasswokingham.org.uk

We strive to make our website as user-friendly and accessible as possible. To achieve this, we follow W3C accessibility guidance and the principles of Plain English.

This website is run by Wokingham Borough Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• Change colours, contrast levels, and fonts
• Zoom in up to 300 percent without the text spilling off the screen
• Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. If you have a disability, you can get advice on making your device easier to use from AbilityNet.

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• You cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• There’s a limit to how far you can magnify our maps