Accessibility Statement - Wicklow County Council

Our Goal

Wicklow County Council are committed to making the information on this website accessible to all, regardless of ability. We have designed our website to follow guidelines set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) produces accessibility guidelines that are an internationally recognised benchmark of accessibility

We aim to comply with Level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

The site was audited in November 2008. We will continue to monitor and improve the accessibility of this site. We will also closely monitor developments and changes in accessibility guidelines and general website best practice.

Known Issues

We are aware of the following issues:

PDF Documents

The site makes use of Portable Document Format (PDF). Certain documents on this site are available only in this format, which require you to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

If you cannot access the information in any PDF document please contact webmaster@wicklowcoco.ie

Navigation Bar

Some users may experience difficulty when using the navigation bar, especially if they have JavaScript and/or CSS disabled or are using a browser that does not support these technologies

We are currently working to fix this issue and hope to provide a more accessible navigation bar in the near future. You can still use the sitemap to navigate the site

Council Meeting Webcasts

Since 2007 we have provided webcasts of Council meetings

To view a webcast you will need to have either Real's free player or Microsoft media player installed depending on the format of the webcast. Both of these are free (though there are also paid for versions of Real's player) and can be downloaded and installed from the links above.

Unfortunately we do not have the facilities to provide live captioning of meetings. We realise that this may inconvenience certain deaf or hard-of-hearing users who wish to watch these webcasts.

However, minutes are available in multiple formats (as a webpage, PDF or Microsoft Word). These minutes are a summary of each Council meeting and are available a few days after each meeting

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