Website Accessibility
Mayo County Council is a signatory of the Barcelona Declaration and is covered by the Disability Act 2005.
To comply with both standards, Mayo County Council is committed to making all of the Council's online materials as accessible as possible. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility of our websites.
The site is designed in accordance with the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and conforms to most priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints. Our goal is to meet WAI Level A compliance on all webpages. WAI Level AA (Double A) and AAA (Triple A) compliance will be met whenever possible and “Double A” is the minimum target goal for webpage accessibility.
We have provided the following accessibility features to make the website more accessible:
- Use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout control of presentation
- All images have corresponding alternative text
- All data tables and forms contain additional mark-up that may help assistive technologies such as screen readers
- All documents are marked up appropriately, with meaningful links and correct heading structures.
If you find that a page (or pages) of this website are difficult to use, please email us at webmaster@mayococo.ie with details about the page and the problem(s) it presents for you. We will attempt to provide a solution to make the website more accessible to you.
Finally, all new content published to the site is published in accessible HTML, wherever possible.