Improvements

To improve accessibility we have:

• Installed an accessibility tool that enables our website editors to review all existing content and fix any accessibility issues.
• Installed an accessibility bar on the website that enables users to easily increase the font size of the text.
• Provided ‘skip to content’ links to allow direct access past the navigation menu to each page’s main content. ‘Skip to content’ links are useful to give screen reader and keyboard users the same capability of navigating directly to the main content.
• Used HTML heading elements to represent page structure, supporting assistive technologies that allow page navigation from heading to heading.
• Checked text and background colour combinations used throughout the website to ensure that the contrast is sufficient. We used the coolors.co/contrast-checker to ensure all contrast scores are at least 4.5:1, in line with the WCAG AA standard.

Compliance

This website is not fully compliant with the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standard as some of the content listed below is inaccessible.

Text size

You can vary the text size by using your browser’s text resize option. However increasing the size of text by 200% on this website sometimes causes the structure to break.

We will review the website structure to identify changes that could be made to prevent it from breaking when the size of text is increased by 200% to meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4 (resized text).

Alternative text for images

Some of the images on this website may contain low quality alternative tags. These inform screen readers what the images represent, so may not be recognised. We are reviewing the images in the media library to ensure that every image contains a good quality alternative tag.

Hyperlinks

We will ensure that the hyperlinks on the website include title tags that are recognisable to screen readers and meaningful to people who rely on them.

PDF documents

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. Any new PDF documents we publish will be fully accessible to screen reader software to meet accessibility standards.

Videos

Older video content is not accompanied by an audio description designed for people with visual impairments. The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix videos published before 23 September 2020. Any new videos we publish will be accompanied by an audio description designed for people with visual impairments and captions designed for people with hearing impairments, to meet accessibility standards.

Further information

If you find any issue not listed on this page, or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please get in touch by email to gmcamhs.workforce@mft.nhs.uk.