Web accessibility

This page has been automatically translated from French into English by a translation software. Automatic translations are not as accurate as translations made by professional human translators. Nevertheless these pages can help you understand information published by the City of Brussels.

   

The website of the City of Brussels respects the standards of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and, particularly, the standards by Anysurfer that allows partially-sighted persons to read the website.

To facilitate the reading of pages, we gave:

• The possibility of increasing the size of texts (by clicking the icone)
• A sound system on the pages. Pages can be read by a French, Dutch and English electronic voice (by clicking the icone).

The menus are textual. All the images are accompanied by an alternative text which can thus be read by reading systems for partially-sighted persons.

There is also a big contrast between the text and the background of the screen.

The website does not use drop-down menus and Flash. Flash is only used for certain publications on the site. The basic information always appears in a legible html size text, except for the issues of Brusseleir (Flash and pdf).

Forms were also conceived to be legible.

Inaccessible tools

Certain pages which lean on a search engine or a browsing tool are not accessible for visually handicapped. These include the Guestbooks, the search engine for real-estate, online documents of the Archives and the accessibility guide.