Accessibility Statement

ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

NIHR is committed to making its websites and mobile applications accessible, in accordance with national legislation transposing Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council and in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This accessibility statement applies to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Primary Care Research office.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with WCAG 2.0/2.1AA, due to the non-compliance/exemptions listed below.

Non-accessible content

The content listed in the below sections is non-accessible for the following reason(s):

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Red Errors:

  • There are a number of items with very low contrast. We have made best efforts to date to resolve these issues.

Amber Alerts:

  • Missing first level heading

  • Link text which may not make sense out of context

  • Some redundant links - that is, adjacent links go to the same location

  • Some underlined text

  • Some redundant text, i.e. title attribute text is the same as text or alternative text

  • Links to YouTube videos

  • A skipped heading level


We will resolve these alerts at a scheduled time.

Green Features:

  • Linked image alt text

  • Language identification

Structural Elements:

  • Headers

  • Footers

  • Navigation

  • Unordered Lists

  • Main content

We have made every effort to meet accessibility standards and will keep this under regular review, but at any point there may be errors or imperfections.

Disproportionate burden

The breakdown of the existing Google Sites accessibility issues summarises the existing accessibility issues with Google Sites. Fixing for these accessibility issues is the responsibility of Google as providers of the Google Sites product. Therefore, fixes for these issues are beyond NIHR control. The only resolution to fixing these issues ourselves is to change website hosts to another supplier. We’ve assessed the cost of fixing these issues and believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations. We continue to work with Google in providing feedback and collaborating to ensure Google’s products are as accessible as possible.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

The following non-accessible section(s)/content/function(s) is/are out of scope of the applicable legislation

  • Some of the documents that we link to for additional information are outside our control and may not be fully accessible.

  • Some old documents are exempt, having been created before 23rd September 2018

  • Some videos are exempt, having been published before 23rd September 2020

  • Some third party content is out of our control, such as social media links

  • Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents. By September 2021, we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.

  • 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 PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

  • Our site contains documentation such as PDFs or Word files and these have been checked for accessibility.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 29/04/2021


It was last reviewed on 30/06/2021


This website was last tested on 29/06/2021. The test was conducted by the NIHR.


We used a third-party accessibility tool called WAVE to test the accessibility of this website. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. A full explanation of how this tool works can be found on WAVE’s website.

Feedback and contact information

If you wish to report any accessibility challenges in using this website, or if you require any information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact:

CAPCCG.RandDoffice@nhs.net

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 30 days. If you do not receive a response, please contact the NIHR Service Desk at 0207 333 5060 (internal or external) or visit https://www.support.nihr.ac.uk/sp (internal only) for assistance.

Enforcement procedure

If you do not receive a response to the above request, please contact the NIHR Service Desk (details above) for further escalation.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

This website has been built using Google Sites. Please see the following link to the NIHR Hub Accessibility Statement which gives more information regarding the general use of Google Sites, including contact details for users who require further Accessibility support.