Greenfields Community Housing aims to make this website accessible to all visitors. To achieve this goal, the website was created in accordance with certain web standards and government guidelines.

Google Translate:

Google Translate offers a website translation service. The tool converts pages of our website from English to a range of other languages. The Google Translate tool can be found at the top of every page, to the right of the Greenfields logo. Click the 'Select Language' box to get started.

Browsealoud:

Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.

Browsealoud is a computer program that reads out website pages. As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud.

Browsealoud is free for all our website visitors to use.

Please click here to download and install the Browsealoud software.Then simply move the cursor over the words and they are spoken aloud.

For further information about Browesaloud, please click on the link http://www.browsealoud.com

Access keys

Access keys can make it easier for a visitor to navigate through a website. A link is instantly selected when its access key is typed.

On a Windows computer, you can press ALT + an access key to select a link.
On a Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key to select a link.

Conforming to the UK Government accesskeys standard, the following access keys are defined on each page of the Greenfields Community Housing website:

• S - Skip navigation
• 1 - Home page
• 3 - Site map
• 4 - Search
• 9 - Contact
• 0 - Access key details

Standards compliance

1. All pages on this site comply with the Bobby AA accessibility guidelines. Understanding that many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not, this statement is made on the basis of both an automatic scan and subjective manual review. After evaluating the site against Bobby's AA guidelines, it is believed that all pages adhere to them.
2. All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional, as determined by the W3C Markup Validation Service. This is important to ensure that the website has a consistant appearance and functionality across all modern web browsers.
3. All pages on this site use valid Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), as determined by the W3C CSS Validation Service. This is important to ensure that the website has a consistant appearance across all modern web browsers.

Increasing text size

The Greenfields Community Housing website uses relative font sizes to allow text to be resized easily. Font size can be adjusted in two ways:

Inbuilt resize tool
The website has an inbuilt resize tool. This can be found in the top left corner of all pages:

Browser Options
See the table below for a guide to increasing the text size in some popular web browsers:

Increasing text size in popular web browsers

Internet Explorer
Netscape or Mozilla Firefox
Opera (Unlike the other browsers, this does not just increase text size. Instead it magnifies the whole page, including images)

All pages on this site comply with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). As many of the guidelines can not be tested automatically, this statement is made on the basis of subjective manual review. After evaluating the site against the priority 1 and 2 guidelines, it is believed that all pages adhere to them. A checklist of the WCAG guidelines is available here.