Accessibility Statement / Text sizes: Default / Larger

This website has been designed and built with accessibility in mind, and the following advice should help with any problems you might have with navigating and accessing its content. If you are still experiencing difficulties, please contact us and we will assist you further.

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Navigating this site

If you want to go to another area of the site, click with your mouse when your cursor is over a link. Whenever your cursor looks like a hand rather than an arrow, it means you can click and go to another page. You can go to any of the main sections by clicking on the buttons in the top navigation bar. These appear on every page.

At the end of every article there is a "Top of page" link which will return you to the top of the page, so you can choose another topic or navigate to other sections of this site.

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Images on this site

All non-layout images that convey some sort of information (for example titles or logos) have alt tags describing the image content. This information will be displayed if you are browsing this site with images turned off.

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Resizing the text

The quickest way to enlarge the text size is to click on the "Larger" link on the left. Similarly, clicking on the "Default" link will display this site's text at the smaller size.

You can also customise most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Firefox and Safari to make the text larger. Generally, if you point your mouse at the "View" option at the top of the screen, and click on it, a list will appear, which should include text resizing options.

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Accesskeys

Accesskeys are keyboard shortcuts for navigating around websites. To use accesskeys, press the following keyboard combinations:

PC users: hold down Alt and press relevant accesskey - see below. Then press Enter.
Mac users: hold down Ctrl and press relevant accesskey - see below.

You can use accesskey shortcuts to get to the following main pages:

1 = Home
2 = What is a Hate Crime?
3 = Questions you may be asked
4 = The Action for Men Project
5 = Citizens Advice Bureaux
6 = The Hate Incidents Confidential Panel
7 = The Ethnic Minority Achievement Service
8 = Epping Forest District Council
9 = How the Police can help
0 = Essex Racial Equality Council
q = West Essex Victim Support
w = WAYPIC
e = South Essex Switchboard
r = Contact
a = Accessibility Statement (this page)

z = Default text size
x = Larger text size

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