Accessibility

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

 

You can find out how to:

 

• make your mouse easier to use
• use your keyboard instead of a mouse
• talk to your device
• make your device talk to you
• make text larger
• change your colours; and
• magnify the screen.

 

How accessible is this website?

Whilst we have made every effort to make most of our website accessible to all, we know some parts of the website are not fully accessible yet, such as:

 

• Many of our PDFs and Word documents don’t currently meet accessibility standards
• Links to our own internal files may not be labelled properly and may not always appear within a paragraph
• Some references to link text to external websites may not resize correctly on some mobile devices
• Our news and events pages do not always contain a filter function
• YouTube videos displayed on our pages may not be accessible on certain devices
• Our vacancies search page does not have adequate colour contrast and individual vacancies are not labelled correctly
• The search facility within our search results page may be difficult to use on some devices

 

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of our website.

 

If you do find any problems that we have not listed on this web page or think we are not meeting certain accessibility requirements, please contact us via our feedback form.

 

 

 

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed.

 

Non-accessible content

The content listed is non-accessible for the following reasons.

 

PDFs and Word documents

Many of our PDFs and Word documents don’t currently meet accessibility standards - they do not comply with all the WCAG 2.1 criteria 2.4.5 multiple ways. We will be conducting a full review of our PDF estate in order to fix these issues.

 

Link labels

Links to our own internal files may not be labelled properly and may not always appear within a paragraph. This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.3.1 information? and relationships.

 

Embedded YouTube videos

YouTube videos displayed on our pages may not be accessible on certain devices. This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value and 1.3.1.info and relationships.

 

Search facility

The search facility within our search results page may be difficult to use on some devices. This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.3.1 info and relationships.

 

Please contact us via our feedback form - if you request a file in a different format.

 

 

This statement was last updated in February 2021.