Haringey Council has become the first local authority to receive Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) accreditation for its website.

RNIB have deemed the council’s website fully accessible for people with visual impairments and disabilities.

To gain accreditation people who use assistive devices tested screen readers, magnifiers, voiceover touch controls, and the like before recommending modifications.

Minor changes were needed to make web pages easily navigable.

In other web-related news, Haringey Council’s website has been acknowledged as the ‘Best in London’.

This was achieved at the prestigious Socitm Better Connected awards.

The award was given for the council website providing quick and easy access to information, and successful completion of customer tasks.

The website has also been awarded a four-star rating for the sixth year in succession.

Reviewers were impressed with the landing page, clear search results, and handy links.

Better Connected tested the council for building control, parking applications, social care assessments, navigation and search, and mobile and accessibility tests.