Richmond upon Thames

Council for Voluntary Service

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Change Up:

In response to RCVS's local Change Up strategy, it has been decided to undertake the redevelopment of the RCVS web in two phases.

First Phase: The web site will be refitted to make it fully accessible for all site visitors. Its content will be expanded to cover the full ranges of services that RCVS offers. A search engine will be set up to ensure that all information can be retrieved from the web site . A decision was made to keep the phase one design as close to the style of the original site, so as not to put off our existing visitors.

Phase completed: 10/03/06

Second Phase: The completion of phase one will assist in securing the funding for a Content Managed Web site (CMS) . This type of Web site will act as a community portal for the local voluntary and community sector. Via the site, RCVS will be able to represent the work of its membership, the local sector and our volunteer programmer to the general public, stakeholders and funders. All VCG will have web space, there will be forums to join and a calendar of borough-wide events and training opportunities.

Projected date for completion: March 07 (subject to funding)

Accessibility

This site is designed to be used by as many visitors as possible, some of whom will be using different types of 'assistive technology' to open and read web pages for them. In order for these technologies to work, the code that the site is written in and the way the site is structured needs to be prepared to special guidelines.

The hyper text markup language (html) code used to construct the web pages and the style to control the design and layout of the page has been produced to W3C recommendations and has been tested through online validators. All the pages in the site have been submitted to this process and have all passed. Each page has an icon to prove that it is a valid page. You can click on the icons on each page to test this yourself.

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The code for the structure of the web site has been validated by the online W3C validation service .

Visit this web address to validate your code.

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The style sheet that controls the look and feel of the web site has been validated by the online WAI validation service .

Visit this web address to validate your CSS style sheet.

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The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA believes that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. Users, especially parents of young children, can then use filtering software to allow or disallow access to web sites based on the information declared in the label.

Visit the ICRA web site to learn more

Problems with your search

If you are searching for a particular information try some of the following tips to get more specific results from the search.

Check spelling

Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. If Sound-Alike Matching is turned on, the search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms, but it's always best to try to spell the search terms correctly.

Use multiple words

Using multiple words will return more refined results than a single word. For example, typing ethnic minority groups will return more relevant results than typing just minority. (Keep in mind that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms.) back to top

Use similar words

The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant your results will be. Example: older elderly aged senior back to top

Use appropriate capitalization

Capitalize proper nouns, and remember that lower-case words will match any case. For example, typing search will return all documents containing the words search, Search, and SEARCH. Typing Search, however, will instruct the search engine to look only for the capitalized word.

Example: Domestic Violence

Use quotation marks

Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "children with special needs." Otherwise, the search results will include the word children, with , special , and the word needs, but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document. back to top

Use plus (+) or minus (-)

Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term. Example: +"funding" back to top

Use wildcards

Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.For instance, searching for car* will find the words care, carers, caring, and any other word that starts with car.
Searching for *sport* will find the words transport, transporting, support, supporting, sports, sporting, and any other word that contains sport anywhere in the word.

Problems with javascript

Javascript is a programming language, often used by web developers and designers to make changes to the look of the web page. Javascript uses this language and programming instructions to tell your web browser how to display your web pages. However javascript programming can conflict with assistive technologies and can more sinisterly be used to send information about you from your computer.

For this reason Many people choose to turn the option to use javascript to off in their internet settings. If you have seen a message about javascript being disabled, then it means that you have javascript turned off on your machine. The javascript on this site is minimal and is used on to provide the time and date. If you want to turn javascript 'on' , it can be done in the options from the tools or edit menu on your web browser.

If you cannot access this site or find it difficult to use , please contact the Philippa Leary to discuss how the site can be improved.

email: philippal@richmondcvs.org.uk

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