{"id":15208,"date":"2019-10-08T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/accessibility\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:54:46","slug":"accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Inrochtaineacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Help for Users with Disabilities<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The Property Service Appeal Board is committed to achieving a conformance level of Triple-A with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG10\/full-checklist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<\/strong><\/a> developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and complying with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/universaldesign.ie\/Technology-ICT\/?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Disability Authority IT Accessibility Guidelines.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Some of the features included to help people with disabilities are described below.<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:5px;\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:17;--minFontSize:17;line-height:1.41;\">Using the Tab Key to Jump between Links<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>You can use the <strong>Tab <\/strong>key on your keyboard to jump from one link to the next. All navigation bars in the site provide a logical order for this.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Keyboard Shortcuts<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>1 &#8211; Home Page<br \/>2 &#8211; Contact Us<br \/>3 &#8211; Access Officer<br \/>4- Sitemap<br \/>6- Search<br \/>9 &#8211; Accessibility (this page)<\/p>\n<p>To use these access keys, hold down either the <strong>Alt, Ctrl <\/strong>or <strong>Cmd <\/strong>key, depending on which browser you are using, and then press the key. If you&#8217;re using Internet Explorer, you need to press <strong>Enter <\/strong>after focusing on a link.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-5 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Document Formats<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>Many of the publications on this website are available in PDF format to enable easier reading and printing offline. This format is not always readily accessible to people with disabilities. Because of this, we have provided most documents with synopses that go some way to providing an alternative format to the PDF documents.<\/p>\n<p>The Property Service Appeal Board is working towards making its PDFs fully accessible.<br \/>To read PDF documents, you need to have Adobe Reader on your computer. <a href=\"https:\/\/get.adobe.com\/uk\/reader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>DownloadAdobeReaderforfree<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-6 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Navigation Aids<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>A breadcrumb link is available at the top each page to help you navigate.<br \/>The home page and all internal pages include a search box (access key 6).<br \/>Advanced search options are also available.<br \/>The Skip Navigation link in the site header allows you to skip over the navigation and go directly to the main content of each page.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-7 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Images<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p>All content and decorative images on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. ALT titles are provided to explain the content or the purpose of the image in question.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-8 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Colour-blind or Partially Sighted Users<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p>You can increase and decrease the font size or override it completely. We have checked the site font and background colour combinations for the different colour-blindness conditions and ensured that items are not referenced by colour alone.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-9 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Contact Us<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><p>If you encounter any difficulties in using this site, please let us know by e-mailing us at<strong> <a href=\"psabsecretary@psab.ie\">psabsecretary@psab.ie<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-10 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:10px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:26;--minFontSize:26;line-height:1.5;\">Access Officer<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"><p data-wahfont=\"18\">In accordance with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/eli\/2005\/act\/14\/section\/26\/enacted\/en\/html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wahfont=\"18\">Section 26(2) of the Disability Act 2005<\/a><\/strong>, the Property Service Appeal Board has appointed an Access Officer.<\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"18\">The Access Officer is responsible for providing, arranging or co-ordinating assistance to persons with disabilities who wish to access the services provided by the Property Service Appeal Board.<\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"18\">The Access Officer also acts as a point of contact for persons with disabilities who wish to access such services.<\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"18\"><strong>Access Officer<\/strong><br \/><strong>Address<\/strong>: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin, D01 W6X0<br \/><strong>Phone<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"tel:+35318882521\" data-wahfont=\"18\">+ 353 1 888 2521<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:webmaster@housing.gov.ie\">webmaster@housing.gov.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15245,"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15208\/revisions\/15245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psab.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}