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 Embedding the staff guide 'Best Patient Care, Clinical Research and You' in your Trust

Compliance status

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


(a) Non-accessible content

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

  • Almost all functionality provided by Google Sites is keyboard accessible. For example, all available site content types can be added, edited, moved and resized by keyboard. However, there are a few keyboard related items that affects keyboard users. For example:

  • In certain cases, performing a specific action causes keyboard focus to be reset.

  • Google Sites provides some form of visual indication of focus for most interactive controls. Some exceptions include:

    • The active tab in the Insert Image dialog doesn't provide any visual indication of focus

    • When initially focused, the Recent Sites grid does not show an visual indication of focus.

  • WAI-ARIA is used to expose role and state information on most elements, but some elements are not exposed correctly. For example:

    • Screen readers do not provide a consistent indication that a tile is currently being edited.

  • Most of the Google Sites UI can be interacted with through keyboard and does not require fine motor control. Examples of some of the exceptions are:

    • When adding a new sub page to the ‘Pages’ panel, the pages list is no longer reachable without using a mouse.

  • As Google Sites is a web-based application (not a document), the UI associated with its editor relies heavily on the use of associated style sheets. However, the web pages generated through Google Sites do not require style sheets in order to be readable.

  • Most of Google Sites core functionality is keyboard accessible and can be performed with assistive technology for people who are blind. There are however a few part of the Google Sites UI that cannot be used by assistive technology users. For example:

  • On the Home screen, the context menu available for each site in the Recent Sites grid cannot be reached or operated by keyboard.

  • The buttons in the page header toolbar are not marked up as a composite toolbar widget.

  • Accessibility provisions in Google Sites can be provided without requiring a separate text-only version.

  • The majority of iFrames in Google Sites are labeled in a descriptive way when used to embed other resources to a site. In some cases iFrames without a title attribute are used for technical purposes.

  • Hyperlinks are underlined to identify them as active hyperlinks. This is the case for weblinks and email addresses.


(b) The content is not within the scope of the applicable legislation

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

  • There are embedded Word documents throughout the site which include images of the documents themselves. It is not possible to add alternative text on these images within Google Sites.



Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 14th April 2021

The statement was last reviewed on 5th May 2021


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:

lucy.gallagher@nihr.ac.uk

call 0203 328 6745

Or roger.steel@nihr.ac.uk


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 for assistance.


Enforcement procedure

If you do not receive a response to the above request, please contact the NIHR Service Desk 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).

_PDFs and other documents

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._

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.