Accessibility Information

Carlisle City Council take the issue of access for the disabled seriously, we try and ensure accessibility for all on our website as part of our commitment to  residents and visitors.

We’re constantly working to make CARLISLE.GOV.UK as accessible and usable as possible.

We aim to meet all priority 1 and 2 checkpoints within the WAI recommendations on all our pages. (On occasion this is not possible where external third party applications do not pass all accessibility checks.)

Content and readability

All the content has been reviewed to use plain English and we have made the content easy to read and be read by accessibility tools.

Listen to our site with ReciteMe

Recite Me provides a complete range of Accessibility tools to cover all disabilities. In addition it will translate your pages with any of the installed 100 languages, you can even specify your preferred settings so you will always have them ready to go whenever you use our site.

Contact us

If you are or someone you know is experiencing problems accessing this website, or if you have any comments on its accessibility, please contact us and we will do our very best to help.

Get Help

AbilityNet provides guidance about how to:

• make your mouse easier to use
• use your keyboard instead of a mouse
• talk to your device
• make your device talk to you
• make text larger
• change your colours
• magnify the screen

Useful websites

• BBC My Web, My Way(external link)– explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative(external link)– the W3C is the internationally accepted authority on web standards
• Adobe Accessibility Resource Center(external link)– accessibility tools for working with PDF files