This page contains information on facilities available from the site including methods of navigation, useful software downloads and advice on browser accessibility options.
Downloads
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Please note that Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed.
Click the link below to download the software:
The site also publishes documents in Microsoft Word format.
To view and print Microsoft Word files, you must either have Word installed on your PC or you can download the free Microsoft Word Viewer software:
The use of Microsoft Powerpoint is relatively new on this site but if you don't have the full software you can download the viewer. The free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 supports PowerPoint 95, 97 and certain aspects of PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 files. This viewer allows you to view presentations both in the browser window and when saved on your PC. Download the free Microsoft Power Point reader:
For an online translation of a webapge try http://babelfish.altavista.com/ . You'll be able to copy and paste the page URL into the application or copy and paste text copied directly from our webpages.
Whilst the website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, the pages have been optimised to be best viewed with your screen resolution set to 800x600 pixels or higher and using Internet Explorer 5 and above. Whilst the main information pages are viewable with Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Firefox, some applications may give rise to problems. To get the best from colour images contained on these pages we recommend you view with a colour depth greater than 256 colours.
We are committed to making the website as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, including users who may be blind or partially sighted.
The design of our website includes a number of accessibility features including:
a common design throughout
text only pages
ensuring that all images used in our site are given appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts")
making information table structures accessible by providing summaries and ID tags to aid read aloud software (complying with section 508)
in general, we try to avoid the use of other proprietary publishing formats such as Shockwave Flash and other media formats requiring third-party plug-ins. We use other technologies, such as Javascript, appropriately to avoid creating accessibility barriers
Contact Us
If you encounter any accessibility or technical problems when using this site, please e-mail the Web Development Team: website@townforum.org.uk
