Website Accessibility Information

Scarborough Borough Council created this website and are committed to ensuring this website can be accessed and used effectively by the vast majority of website users.

Compliance

This website has been built to closely adhere to as many web standards as appropriate, reference has been sought from the Disability Discrimination Act, PAS 78 and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

Interactive maps

Interactive maps are inherently not Accessible, current technology does not make 'GIS Mapping' accessible, for this we apologise but assure users that when affordable technology enables this, we will seek to update.

Web browser guidance

Our website is designed to utilise the latest technology standards to deliver information efficiently and in the most accessible way. The site has been designed and tested to support a wide variety of web browsers and versions.

Changing font sizes, contrast settings, layout and more are best described through the help section of your internet web browser, please refer to their help sections for current details.

The BBC also provide excellent help and advice on their My Web My Way website

We also encourage users of our site to regularly visit their browser provider's website and download current security updates to ensure safe and correct functioning of their browser software, please also keep up to date anti-virus and security software on your computer.

JavaScript

The site uses JavaScript so we recommend that you enable JavaScript in your browser, most browsers are already enabled by default. The website will still function without JavaScript.