Accessibility Statement

The Central Bank of Ireland Registers is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines. The following statement outlines the provisions we have made to ensure a high standard of accessibility throughout this website.

Standards Compliance

The pages on this site are designed to be WCAG AA compliant, and to comply with all priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The pages on this site are designed to be compliant with the Irish National Disability Authority IT Accessibility Guidelines.

The pages on this site are designed to be Section 508 compliant, and to comply with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.

This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means it will also display correctly in any future browsers.

The pages on this site are designed to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.

NOTE: Whilst we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. If you should experience any difficulty in accessing the website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

PDF Documents

Some of the PDF documents on the website are accessible. Others are not. We are in the process of making all our PDF documents accessible. When selected, PDF documents on this website will open in a new window.

Images

All images used in this site include descriptive ALT or LONGDESC tag.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

Accessibility references

W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.

W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.

W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.

Irish National Disability Authority IT accessibility guidelines.

U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software

JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.

Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.

Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.

Requirements

The browsers recommended for optimum use of this site are as follows:

Internet Explorer 6.0 upwards.

Firefox 2.0 upwards.

Safari 4.0 upwards.