Other accessibility considerations
The South Tyneside Council and Community website has a number of other accessibility consideration including:
Navigation
If you have motability or sight problems you can navigate this website using the tab key or switch device to move through the links on web pages.
Images
Relevant alternative text (alt text) is added to all images on this website. The text contained in the alt tag will depend on the reason for the image:
- Images used as links will have alternatives that, like good text links, tell you about the destination page.
- Informative images will have alternative text that contains the information that the image contributes to the page.
- Images of text will use the visible text as their alternatives.
- Decorative images will be given empty alternative text, so that they are silent when a screen reader reads the page.
- Layout images are very rarely used but will also be rendered "silent" by having empty alternative text.
Colour
Colours are chosen on the basis that they provide good contrast between text and its background, and avoid combinations that are known to cause difficulties for people with colour blindness.
Opening new windows
Links on this website rarely open new browser windows. If a link is required to open a new browser window there will be warning message next to the link text.
Javascript
Javascript is used throughout this website to enhance user experience. The website does not rely on javascript and if javascript is disabled the website will still function correctly.
