This accessibility statement applies to www.healthforkids.co.uk
This website is run by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
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:
We use Browsealoud, a piece of software included for every visitor to our website that adds instant access to supportive features, including text-to-speech, translation and magnification tools. Find out more about how to use the included Browsealoud tools on this website.
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
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, please contact the communications team at: feedback@leicspart.nhs.uk
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).
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
There are components with invalid ARIA attributes, this fails WCAG 4.1.1.
There are IDs used in ARIA labels which are not unique, this fails WCAG 4.1.1.
Some form elements do not have labels, this fails WCAG 1.3.1
There is no visible indication when an element on the page has been selected, this fails WCAG 2.4.7.
Menu items appear more than once hindering operability, this fails WCAG 2.4.3.
There is no main landmark on the page, this fails WCAG 1.3.1.
Some text used as a heading is not coded as a heading, this fails WCAG 1.3.1
Games are unable to be accessed when using the keyboard, this fails WCAG 2.1.1.
Some pages with games features content that moves on the screen without a means to pause it, this fails WCAG 2.2.2.
There is no keyboard-accessible method to bypass menus and skip to main content, this fails WCAG 2.4.1.
Some content with hide/show functionality is not accessible using the keyboard, this fails WCAG 2.4.3.
Some links have poor or missing accessible names and are not described by the preceding page context, this fails WCAG 2.4.4.
There are native widgets without instructions to identify the expect input, this fails WCAG 3.3.2.
Some images are incorrectly identified as meaningful, this fails WCAG 1.1.1.
Some images containing text do not provide a text alternative, this fails WCAG 1.1.1.
Interactive content using images does not retain its meaning when CSS is disabled, this fails WCAG 1.3.2.
Some components do not have sufficient contrast between foreground and background, this fails WCAG 1.4.11.
Some text does not wrap correctly when text spacing is adjusted, this fails WCAG 1.4.12.
Some elements have incomplete tags or duplicate attributes, this fails WCAG 4.1.1.
Video content is not provided with a text or audio equivalent, this fails WCAG 1.2.1.
There is no audio description provided for video content, this fails WCAG 1.2.5.
We plan to address the above issues by the end of March 2021.
Some of our pages link to PDF documents provided by external organisations for additional content. Whilst these documents are outside of our control, we will update links to web page content where possible when articles are reviewed.
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.
This statement was prepared on 16th September 2020. It was last reviewed on 16th September 2020.
This website was last tested on 10th September 2020. The test was carried out in-house by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust using the Accessibility Insights for Web tool.
We used a sample of pages for testing which covered different content types, including written and interactive content.