Accessible Services

Trying to make our Services accessible

Using technology, we have tried to make our websites easier for people to use. We are altering and adapting our buildings to make sure people with different needs can use them. We are training our staff to help people in an open manner to make Waterford County Council easy to use for the widest number of people.
Click on the link on the left hand side of the screen to read or download our Disability Act 2005 Implementation Plan. This tells you how Waterford County Council is responding to the Disability Act, including our Accessible Information Policy.

Have this website read to you

You can have the web pages on this website read back to you. To allow this to happen you need to click your mouse button on the orange Browsealoud picture on the right hand side of this page.

Once you have added this software to your own PC, Browsealoud will work automatically with Windows for use with Internet Explorer 4 upwards or Netscape Navigator.

If you are not sure what to do take the video tour to help you use Browsealoud and make choices about how you will use it.

Plain English - Using everyday language

The Council uses too much jargon and too many complicated words when we are trying to tell people about what we do. We are looking at our websites, application forms and leaflets to take this complicated language away and replace it with plain English that is better for everyone. We have so much information that we have to do this bit by bit.

Library Services For All

What can your library do?
The library service can help different people in many ways, please click here to find out about them.

Our Websites

Our websites will be easy to use and deliver services, provide information and promote Waterford Local Authorities and County Waterford to our customers effectively and efficiently.

We will be offering an improved service on:

www.waterfordcoco.ie Waterford County Council’s main website covering what we do and leading to information from Dungarvan, Lismore and Tramore Town Councils.

www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie our County Library Service website, where you can find a huge amount of digital resources. Digital resources are books and printed material on your screen.

www.workinwaterford.ie which has information on living and working in County Waterford.

www.investinwaterford.ie for those looking for a good base for their business.

www.waterfordtourism.ie for those interested in finding out what’s on in Waterford.

www.theseankellytour.com the official website of the annual event that aims to help make County Waterford an extremely cycle-friendly place.

www.waterfordenergy.ie for useful information on how to save energy and new initiatives for sustainable energy

We always appreciate your feedback. If you have any comments or suggestions, please e-mail them to us at coordinate@waterfordcoco.ie