About the Site
This site is produced by Leeds City Council on behalf of the Leeds Initiative and aims to provide comprehensive statistics and information about Leeds.

The Leeds Initiative strives to meet the needs of computer users with visual impairment or other conditions that limit accessibility. Due to the graphics-intensive nature of the mapping section of this site, the geographic information cannot be presented in an accessible format. If you would like assistance with this please contact the Geographic & Information Team at leeds.statistics@leeds.gov.uk

The pre-compiled section of the website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, the pages can be used at at any screen resolution.

Using the Site
We have tried to organise this view of the site to help such visitors access information quickly.

The site can be navigated in the following ways:

• Data Resource
  Pre-compiled information on Leeds and Mapping systems
• Other Services
  Help Contact and Legal Pages
• Leeds Initiative
  Home page of the Leeds Initiative Website.

Home
You can go to the homepage from anywhere in the site by clicking on the Home button at the top left of the page.

Contact Us
Links to Telephone, Email and Addressing Information for the Leeds Initiative Geographical Information Team

Accessibility
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (or WCAG) is a set of accessibility guidelines created by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C. Our aim is to ensure this site complies with Priority 2 level of the W3C Guidelines by December 2005.

Until now, the huge potential of the internet has been 'off limits' to visually impaired computer users who struggle to find websites which are compatible with screen readers and other access technology. Now we are opening up the rich resources of the internet by providing a fully accessible website.

Adobe Acrobat
This site uses the PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Please note that Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service.

To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed: click the link below if you wish to install the software.

PDF files can be converted into webpages if you do not have Acrobat installed. See link to Conversion tools for PDF documents.

Controlling text and colours in your web browser
You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours, and foreground and background colours of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also specify the colour used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special colour for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link.

This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.