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Craven District Council is committed to ensuring this website can be accessed and used effectively by the vast majority of website users. 

Compliance

This website has been built to closely adhere to as many web standards as appropriate, reference has been sought from the Disability Discrimination Act, PAS 78, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative,  E-GIF and Metadata standards such as the IPSV 

Web Browser Guidance

Our website is designed to utilise the latest technology standards to deliver information efficiently and in the most accessible way. The site has been designed and tested to support a wide variety of web browsers and versions.

Changing font sizes, contrast settings, layout and more are best described through the help section of your internet web browser, please refer to their help sections for current details.

The BBC also provide excellent help and advice on their My Web My Way website

We also encourage users of our site to regularly visit their browser provider's website and download current security updates to ensure safe and correct functioning of their browser software, please also keep up to date anti-virus and security software on your computer.
The site uses JavaScript so we recommend that you enable JavaScript in your browser, most browsers are already enabled by default. The website will still function without JavaScript.

Cookie Compliance

Google Analytics 
Craven District Council use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. This tool uses 'cookies', small text files which are automatically downloaded on your computer to collect anonymous information. This tracks information such as how visitors get to our website, what pages are being viewed and what Internet Browser is being used.

If you would prefer to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, then please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

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    Cookies

    A cookie is a small piece of data stored by a website within a browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser), and then subsequently sent back to the same website by the browser.

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