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West Yorkshire Police Authority is committed to ensuring its web site is as accessible as possible to the whole community, regardless of browser, platform or connection speed. In particular, we recognise the need to take reasonable steps to enable access to our website for those who are visually impaired or those with other disabilities.
Work on making this site more accessible has been influenced by the guidelines set out by the RNIB. Link: http://www.rnib.co.uk/seeitright/
This page is designed to offer solutions to a variety of access problems to aid the viewing experience. Please follow the bookmarks below:
Adjusting Text Sizes
Site Navigation
Downloading Files/Documents (PDF Files)
Searching
Images
Compatibility
Hard of Hearing
Accessibility Software
Further Links
Adjusting Text Sizes
Some users might find text easier to read by either increasing or decreasing the size of the text. To do this you can easily adjust your browser's settings.
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest.
If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the View menu and choose Increase Font until the text is the size you require.
Navigation
The site has one key area of navigation. Each page has a common utility navigation bar to the left of the page. This navigation contains links to the 'Sections' and 'Pages' of the website, here you will find links to the main information on the website. Please click on the links on the left-hand navigation and the menu will expand to show the pages within their respective section.
Downloading Files/Documents (PDFs)
All downloadable material on the website is available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
To view these files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free from Adobe.
 Click here to download Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader
Further PDF accessibility information, including details of accessing PDF documents using 'Assistive Technology' is available from access.adobe.com. This website is a resource designed to help people with visual disabilities work more effectively with Adobeฎ Acrobatฎ software and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The site includes information about Acrobat 5.0, online conversion tools, Information and resources including FAQ's and links as well as downloads.
 Click here to go to the Adobe Accessibility website
Searching
You can search the site by using the Search button at the top right hand corner of each page. Please enter search word or words in the box, then start the search by pressing 'Go'. You will be presented with the search results and the option to search again. If there are no results to your search, you can refine your search by the following ways:
Search Document Names Only
Search Keywords Only
Search Full Document
Search All
Select one of the search options or change your search terms and click Go to search again. Click here to go to the search page.
Images
All images used on the home page and all other pages include descriptive ALT attributes. For users with screen reading software this provides a short description of the image in question.
Compatibility
While every effort has been made to ensure the West Yorkshire Police website is accessible on all platforms, we cannot guarantee complete cross-browser compatibility. We have, however tested the site on the following browsers with success:
Firefox 0.9
Lynx
Mozilla 1.7
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
Netscape 7.0.2
Opera 7.5
Safari 1.2.4
Deaf, deafblind, deafened, hard of hearing or speech-impaired?
West Yorkshire Police operates a TEXTPHONE and MINCOM system for use in case of an emergency and non-emergency.
The TEXTPHONE telephone number is Freetext 18001
The MINICOM telephone number is 01924 293 932
Link:
RNID website http://www.rnid.org.uk/
Accessibility Software:
Jaws, a screen reader for Windows. A trial period demo is available.
Homepage Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A trial period downloadable version is available.
Lynx, a free text only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Links, a free text only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming. A free downloadable version is available.
Further Useful Links
Microsoft Accessibility Information : http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
Adobe Accessibility Information : http://access.adobe.com
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