Hints and tips on how to find and view the content of this web site.

The content of this site is maintained by Dock Museum staff. Technical maintenance is provided by IT Services at Barrow Borough Council (itservices@barrowbc.gov.uk).

 

Barrow Borough Council's aim to make this web site as widely accessible as possible. Our pages use a standard template with consistent layout and navigation, and much consideration has been given to the use of colour, text and images. However, individual page content may cause some inconsistencies. If you have any problems viewing this site please let us know, and if the page cannot be corrected we will arrange for the information to be sent to you in another format.

 

Usability describes the navigation, design and page structure of the site.

 

Accessibility describes features and aids for users who may have difficulty viewing or accessing the default page design.

Hyperlinks (links) within content are highlighted in a contrasting colour or underlined, and will change colour and/or be underlined when hovered over or focused on - Example One - - Example Two -

Title attributes (descriptions that can be read by screen readers , or viewed by hovering the mouse over the link) are used on many of our links, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

 

Images used as links will have a descriptive tag on the image as well as a text link.

 

All external sites will open the same window unless otherwise indicated. New windows are only opened for Web Forms, Word and PDF files, our "Printer Friendly" page and areas that do not include our standard navigation menus.

 

There are keyboard shortcuts for navigating around longer pages:

Tab - most browsers will cycle through links on a page by using Tab (two opposing arrows, above Caps Lock on a standard keyboard).

End - will take you to the bottom of a page.

Home - will take you to the top of the page.

Page Down - will scroll the page down one screen.

Page Up - will scroll the page up one screen.

 

"Search this site..."  - If you are not sure where to find the page you are looking for try typing a word or phrase into our "Search this site..." box, available in the top right of every page. Select the GO button and a list of relevant pages will be displayed. Select the title to view the page.

 

"Site Map" lists all content by navigation structure.

 

"A to Z" lists all content by alphabetical listing.

 

A "Breadcrumb trail" in the main content area (e.g. Personnel >  Job Vacancies) will show your place in the navigation structure. This can be used to navigate back through the categories by selecting each part of the trail.

 

"Print" will generate a new window that shows only the main content of a page in a format that will print well.

 

"Text Only" is a version of the site generated from the same text information as shown on the graphics version, with images and formatting removed. This is to aid users with alternative browsers or speech readers, and this version would also be useful for users who have older systems or very slow download speeds.

 

A "skip to content" link, in the code at the top left of every page, is to aid users of accessibility programs, such as screen readers, to avoid listing all navigation items and go straight to the content of a page.

 

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Barrow Borough Council aims to comply with accessibility guidelines based upon the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG defines three levels of checkpoint priority. We aim to meet the AA standard (Double A meaning conformance to Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints) of these guidelines wherever possible, although to maintain functionality of the site, some of these guidelines will be served best by our text only version. We recognise that this is a compromise and have a policy of continual improvement in this area.

A "skip to content" link, in the code at the top left of every page, is to aid users of accessibility programs, such as screen readers, who wish to avoid listing all navigation items and go straight to the content of a page.

 

Title attributes (descriptions that can be read by screen readers or viewed by hovering the mouse over the link) are used on many of our links, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

 

Images used as links will have a descriptive tag on the image as well as a text link.

 

All external sites will open in the same window unless otherwise indicated.New windows are only opened for Web Forms, Word and PDF files, our "Printer Friendly" page and areas that do not include our standard navigation menus.

 

There are keyboard shortcuts for navigating around longer pages:

Tab - most browsers will cycle through links on a page by using Tab (two opposing arrows, above Caps Lock on a standard keyboard).

End - will take you to the bottom of a page.

Home - will take you to the top of the page.

Page Down - will scroll the page down one screen.

Page Up - will scroll the page up one screen.

 

Text Only is a version of the site generated from the same text information as shown on the graphics version, with images and formatting removed. This is to aid users with alternative browsers or speech readers, and this version would also be useful for users who have older systems or very slow download speeds.

 

Text Size both the graphics and text only versions of this site use relative text sizing where possible. This means that if you are having difficulty reading the text you can increase the size by following the appropriate instructions below.