Accessibility

This guide aims to work for everyone, whatever device or assistive technology they use. It is built as plain HTML pages, so text can be resized, read aloud and translated by the browser.

The city map

The map of Liverpool on the home page and elsewhere is an image with a written title and description: it shows the city boundary, the 36 conservation areas and the listed-building records. Every fact it shows is also in the text, and the full list of conservation areas is on its own page as a table. Each conservation area shape also carries its name, which appears when you point at it.

The street check

The street check is an ordinary form: radio buttons, one drop-down list and three tick boxes, each with a visible label, grouped under numbered questions. It works with a keyboard alone. The result updates as you change an answer and is announced politely to screen readers. Each line of the result says in words whether a rule is met, not met or still to confirm, so nothing depends on colour.

Figures and tables

The figures under the home page map count up when they scroll into view. Screen readers are given the final figure, not the moving one, and if your device is set to reduce motion the final figure shows straight away. Tables have header cells and captions, and wide tables scroll inside their own box rather than squeezing the text.

Diagrams

The terrace diagram has a full text description of the six positions it shows and the rule for each, and the same information is written in the page beside it.

Colour and text

Text is set against plain backgrounds with strong contrast, and the dark green bands use white text for the same reason. Nothing on the site relies on colour alone: the conservation areas on the map are also named, and the street check spells out each result in words. Pages reflow when zoomed, so there is no need to scroll sideways except inside the wider tables.

The ward and census tables

The census pages use real data tables with row and column headers, so a screen reader can announce which ward and which heating type each figure belongs to. The bars beside the figures on the heating table are decoration only and are hidden from assistive technology; the percentage in each cell carries the information.

Known limits

Some linked sources, such as council maps and government spreadsheets, are run by other organisations and have their own accessibility arrangements. If one of them causes you a problem, tell us which and we will try to give you the information another way.

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