Accessibility

We want our site to be easy to access for everyone and we have worked hard to get our site's level of accessibility in line with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Government guidelines.

We would be particularly glad to hear from you if you have an internet accessibility issue. Do you find this site easy to use? Is there anything we could do to improve accessibility? Use the Contact Us link at the top of the page to give us your opinions.

Access Keys

"Access Keys" provide keyboard shortcuts for links on a website and can assist users with disabilities to navigate around a site without the need for a mouse.

The Access Keys used on this site are:

• 0 (number 0) = Home
• 1 (number 1) = About the Authority
• 2 (number 2) = Authority News
• 3 (number 3) = Policies, Plans & Reports
• 4 (number 4) = Financial Matters
• 5 (number 5) = Spending Challenge facing the Authority
• 6 (number 6) = Performance
• 7 (number 7) = Involving You
• 8 (number 8) = Police & Crime Commissioners
• 9 (number 9) = Equality & Human Rights
• V = Useful Links
• W = Contact Us

• Y = Accessibility
• Z = Site Map

Browsers after about the year 2000 support Access Keys.

To use the Access Keys, please follow these instructions depending on which operating system you are using:

Windows / PCs: Press the "Alt" key at the same time as the appropriate Access Key. Release the keys, press return and you will be taken to the appropriate page. For example, to reach this sites Home Page, press "Alt" and "0" at the same time, release the keys and then press "Return".

Apple Macintosh based computers: Press the "Ctrl" key at the same time as the appropriate Access Key and you will be taken automatically to the appropriate page. For example, to reach this sites Home Page, press "Ctrl" and "0" at the same time.

In Opera First press "Shift" key and the "Esc" key and opera shows you all the available access keys. Then you can hit the appropriate number to use that access key.

In Safari Press the "Ctrl" key and the "Alt" key at the same time as the appropriate Access Key and you will be taken automatically to the appropriate page. For example, to reach this sites Home Page, press "Ctrl" and "Alt" and "0" at the same time.

Web Standards Compliance

We have tried to make this website as compliant to current web standards as we can. To this end all of this website should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.