Accessibility statement
We are fully committed to making sure that our information is accessible to everyone.
This website has been crafted by Burning Leaf Creatives on our behalf. They aim to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, including people with disabilities and those who use assistive technologies to browse the web.
We have listed below the range of activities that we have undertaken to ensure that all our information is accessible.
Accessibility standards and requirements
This website is fully compliant with:
- The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
Accessibility tool
Our website includes an Accessibility Tool which provides a menu of options that help make our site accessible, including:
- Keyboard Navigation – you can navigate through the keyboard and enhances keyboard functionality.
- Disable Animation – you can disable animations.
- Dark Contrast – you can change the website colours to colours with dark contrast.
- Monochrome – you can change the website colours to grayscale colours.
- Change Font Size – you can increase or decrease the font size on the website.
- Readable Font – you can change the font-family to a more readable font.
- Mark Titles – you can highlight the titles on the website.
- Mark Links – you can highlight the links on the website.
- Links Underline – you can mark all links with an underline.
To use this tool, click on the icon of the blue circle with a white person on the right of the page.
Screen readers
A screen reader is a programme which reads out the information displayed on your computer to you.
Screen readers can be useful to enable blind and partially-sighted people to browse the internet and carry out other tasks using their device.
There are a variety of screen readers available.
Our website is designed to be compliant with screen readers through meaningful sequencing, labeling of images and more.
Plain English
We write our information in plain English and avoid jargon. Where we do need to use legal term, we clearly define the meaning of the word.
Our content is independently assessed against the Flesch reading ease score where all our content must have a score of 60 or higher.
If you don’t understand something, get in touch with us.
Language translations
You are able to translate the information that we provided in this website into 90 different languages by using the Google Translate tool at the bottom of every page.
All the documents that you can download from this website are written in English only. We have provided the same content as web pages so you can translate it into your chosen language.
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