Access Officer
Galway City Council is committed to improving accessibility of our public services.
In accordance with section 26(2) of the Disability Act 2005, we have appointed Sarah Quilter-Lee, Community Development Corporate Assets and Derelict sites, as our Access Officer for Galway City Council.
The access officer is responsible for providing or arranging for, and coordinating assistance and guidance, to persons with disabilities accessing services provided by Galway City Council.
If you would like to find out more, please contact:
Sarah Quilter-Lee
Access Officer,
Community Development Corporate Assets and Derelict sites,
Galway City Council,
City Hall,
Galway
H91 X4K8
By telephone: (091) 536400
By e-mail: accessofficer@galwaycity.ie
Legislation
Disability Act 2005, Section 26
S.I. No. 163/2006 - Disability Act 2005 (Code of Practice) (Declaration) Order 2006
Measures taken on this Website
Galway City Council is committed to providing its online services to all its customers in a format that is as accessible as possible.
Navigation Aids
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. <h1> tags are used for main titles, with <h2> and <h3> tags used for subtitles.
Links
Links to external sites have TITLE attributes, which describe the link and its destination in greater detail, and links are written to make sense out of context.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout. This means you may customise your Internet browser settings to view the site according to your own preferences.
Relative font sizes have been used, compatible with the user-specified "text size" options in visual browsers. If your browser does not support style sheets the content of each page will still be readable.
Testing
We have endeavoured to construct this site according to the National Disability Authority of Ireland's Guidelines for Web Accessibility, complying with Priority 1 and Priority 2 requirements.
We will contine to develop and test the site and hope to meet Priority 3 requirements in the near future.
Contact
If you are having problems accessing the content of this site or if you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this Accessibility Statement, please contact us at:
Webmaster,
I.C.T Section,
Galway City Council,
City Hall.
Email: webmaster@galwaycity.ie
Tel: 091 536575