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Accessibility

Swansea Council is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

We've designed this website with features that make it easier to use by everyone, including those with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, or neurological disabilities. We aim to reach the level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. These are the international standard for accessible websites and content.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for the Visit Swansea Bay website.

We want the site to be:

  • free of jargon, using simple, plain English and Welsh
  • easy to search, so you can search and retrieve information about our services without having any knowledge of the site’s structure, or what we call things

We try:

  • to present information in a logical order and write clearly and simply using everyday words and short sentences
  • keep our web page design simple and consistent

What we're doing to improve accessibility

We're doing our best to try fix the issues outlined above. We monitor the accessibility compliance of our site and improving our site is part of the Web Team's daily work.

  • Appropriate staff have received accessibility training and are working with our service areas to raise awareness of the need to meet the accessibility regulations.
  • We have controls in place to make sure that all new content published on the website complies with the accessibility regulations.
  • We publish content on our staff intranet about accessibility and how to achieve accessibility online or offline.

Let us know what you think

If you enjoyed using the Visit Swansea Bay website, or if you had trouble with any part of it, please get in touch.

My Web, My Way

This is a website (from the BBC) which aims to help arm web audiences with the tools and understanding which will enable them to make the most of the world-wide web, whatever their ability or disability.

The site provides advice and help to all those people who would benefit from making changes to their browser, operating system, or computer to be able to view the web in a more accessible way.

The site is not only for those with disabilities (visual, hearing, motor, cognitive or learning impairments) but also, for example, for those people with minor vision impairments who would not consider themselves to have a disability.

Find out more on My Web My Way.