Shropshire Council

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Accessibility

Summary: The content of this website has been designed and developed to reach the AA standard of WCAG2.1 wherever possible, in order to be compliant with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. This makes the content readable through standard browsers, and works with assistive technologies, such as screen readers. For information on how to set up your computer to suit your accessibility needs, we recommend the AbilityNet website.

For more information, please read our full accessibility statement.

Downloads

Each page on this website provides information in summary format. Where further detail is required, this is provided as a download in PDF (printable document format) together with details of the file size and the download time.

PDF documents

To view PDF attachments you'll require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free for download from the Adobe website

If you're encountering problems viewing any of our PDF documents, please try saving a copy of the PDF to your computer. You can do this by right-clicking on the file name and selecting the option "Save Target As..." (for Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As..." (for Firefox and Chrome).

External links

Any link that will take you away from the Shropshire Council site will be clearly marked, along with any links that will open in a new window.

Printing webpages

When you print a page from this website it will print the content without the surrounding graphics. This is to ensure that you can print out information quickly and with the minimum of printer ink. Printer settings alter depending on the browser used to access this site and the printer used.

Using the search

All pages will display a search box - just enter the word or phrase you want to search for and click on the "Search" button, or hit return or enter on your keyboard.

Translation

If you'd like any page on this website translated into another language, we'd suggest that you use an online translation service, such as Google Translate. Simply choose the language you wish to translate the English text into, copy the text from our website, paste it into the box in and choose 'Translate'. The translation will then appear. Poltran is another online translation service, specifically for Polish/English translations, and works in the same way.

Screen settings

This website has been designed using mobile-first, responsive templates. This means that the content of the page will adjust to best fit your smart phone, tablet or monitor resolution.

Site contrast

Our website has been designed using CSS to allow most browsers and assistive software to change the colours and contrast features used within our content pages.