Website accessibility

We know some parts of our website are not fully accessible:

• most PDF and archive documents are not fully accessible
  • occasionally we add documents produced by external organisations which we cannot always make accessible
  • due to tight deadlines or to meet statutory requirements, we may sometimes upload documents that are not fully accessible
• live video streams do not have captions or transcripts
  • videos uploaded to YouTube do offer closed captions which are autogenerated and may not be completed accurately
• mapping elements are not fully accessible via the use of a screen reader
• some meaningful images do not have good alternate text
• some decorative images may be incorrectly identified as meaningful
• some meaningful images may be incorrectly identified as decorative
• some images contain embedded text
• some elements do not appear within the keyboard tab order
• some elements do not have appropriately descriptive labels which convey the purpose
• there are some images of text present in various areas of the website, including the news elements
• some pages and document attachments are not written in plain English
• the accessible text for some links may not be accurate when using a screen reader
• some documents have poor colour contrast
• some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using a keyboard
• some form fields do not clearly show focus when navigating using a keyboard
• some form fields have missing or multiple labels
• most form fields do not have an autocomplete value defined
• some error messages are not clearly associated with form controls
• some of our forms published as PDF documents may not yet be fully accessible; where possible, we plan to replace these with accessible online forms
• some lists of links are not marked up correctly
• we have links to some systems which are operated by third-party suppliers that are not fully accessible at this time