Accessibility statement for Pelaw Medical Centre’s Website
This accessibility statement applies to https://pelawmedicalpractice.nhs.uk/
This website is run by Pelaw Medical Centre. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
- We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
- you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
- most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
- live video streams do not have captions
- some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
- you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader
- there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
email: helen.sangster1@nhs.net
call: 01914692337
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 days.
If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact:
email: helen.sangster1@nhs.net
call: 01914692337
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact:
email: helen.sangster1@nhs.net
call: 01914692337
Enforcement procedure
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).
Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person
We provide a text relay service for people who are D/deaf, hearing impaired or have a speech impediment.
Our offices have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter.
Compliance
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to ‘the non-compliances and exemptions’ listed below.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:
This site may contain older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards – for example, they may not be structured so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
Some images may not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
We plan to add text alternatives for all images by December 2022 and when we publish new content we’ll endeavor to make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
We are aware of a broken ARIA Menu which we are working to rectify but that should cause users very little issue. We plan to have this resolved by the 22/12/2022
Disproportionate burden
Google Maps – There’s a limit to how far you can magnify the embedded Google Map on our ‘contact us’ page. The code for this map is supplied by Google and we are unable to make amendments to it.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 01/07/2020 and was updated on 22/12/2021.
Site compliance was checked using a combination of manual testing and third party tools, including:
- WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (https://wave.webaim.org/)
- WebAIM Contrast Checker (https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/)
- HTML_CodeSniffer (https://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/)
- Pa11y – Automated accessibility testing (https://pa11y.org/)
- axe – Web Accessibility Testing (https://www.deque.com/axe/