9 May 2007

Manchester City Council's website is midway through a project designed to improve its accessibility levels.

Currently, the council uses flat HTML coding, which can be restrictive for creating provisions for disabled users.

It is hoped that the revamp would vastly improve the website's accessibility as well as the volume and quality of content provided, the Information World Review website reports.

Annette Walters, Senior Project Manager for the Manchester Improvement Programme, explained that the move away from flat HTML "will be a big change to be able to create content more easily".

She added to the website: "A tiny change of code can change accessibility."

Part of the site's refurbishment involves the use of new content management systems that will be more flexible for staff.

It is anticipated that access for people with disabilities will be vastly improved after the August launch of the new site.

Manchester City Council's website is the sixth most visited local authority portal in the UK.

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