About the accessibility of our website
Cumbria County Council is committed to providing its online services to all sections of the public, in line with the current Disability Discrimination Act.
One of our key objectives in designing this site has been to make easily accessible to as many as possible of the people of Cumbria. In particular, we have tried to design the core parts of the site in such a way that: users who find it hard to read the standard screen display can easily alter colours and text sizes to a combination that suits them. We hope the site is straightforward to navigate using a text-only browser or a speech browser navigation using a keyboard rather than a mouse.
We can only be certain that the core site design meets all access needs when we have had feedback from a wide range of users.
We would therefore be especially interested to hear from site users who have special access needs about their experience of using the site.
Accessible Information Policy
You can view the council's accessible information policy at the link below.
Cumbria County Council Accessible Information Policy (230k PDF)
Adjust the text size
If you find the text on our website too large or too small, you can adjust this on your browser.
Instructions can be found below to change the text size for the most popular Internet browsers.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Text Size from the drop down menu. From here you can choose the most appropriate size for you.
Mozilla Firefox and Netscape
Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Text Size from the drop down menu. From here you can increase or decrease the text size to suit your preference.
Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size
Macintosh keyboard shortcuts:
Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and - to decrease the text size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size
Safari
Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller from the drop down menu.
Macintosh keyboard shortcuts:
Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and - to decrease the text size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size
Opera
Go to the View menu at the top of your browser window and select Zoom from the drop down menu. From here you can choose an appropriate percentage.
Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size
Macintosh keyboard shortcuts:
Press Cmd and + to increase the size
Press Cmd and - to decrease the text size
Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size