Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to suffolksp.org.uk

The website is run by the Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

This 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)

Make your device easier to use

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability or impairment.

This includes how to:

  • Make text larger

  • Magnify the screen

  • Change fonts and colours

  • Make your mouse pointer easier to see

  • Use your keyboard instead of a mouse

  • Make your device talk to you

You can translate this website to your preferred language by changing the settings in your web browser.

How accessible this website is

We maintain content creation guidelines to help our website editors meet our obligations to you.

However, due to human error in the content creation process, some parts of this website may not be fully accessible at all times.

For example:

  • Some PDF documents and other documents aren't fully accessible to screen readers

  • Some links don't make sense when taken out of context

  • Some images contain content which you may not be able to read

  • Some videos don't have captions or audio descriptions

  • Some interactive tools are difficult to navigate without using a mouse

What to do if you can't access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format to the one provided, or you wish to inform us that we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us.

We will consider each request we receive and get back to you within 7 days.

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.

If you have made a suggestion to us about our website's accessibility, and you're not happy with how we have responded, please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about accessibility

The Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. We plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages in due course.

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.

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. Likewise, embedded social media feeds, such as that featured on our homepage, are also exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We plan to continually improve accessibility on this website, by an ongoing review of all our content.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 21 July 2023. It was last reviewed on the same day, 21 July 2023.

This website was last tested on 21 July 2023. The test was carried out by the Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership using Siteimprove (testing software), Axe (testing software) and manual analysis.