Accessibility Statement
We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards. This document explains how accessible our website currently is and how we plan to improve it.
This accessibility statement applies to the Care Confidence website: https://careconfidence.org.uk.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- Zoom in to at least 200% without the text spilling off the screen
- Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- Listen to most of the website using a screen reader
How accessible is our website?
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- some live video streams do not have captions
- documents are in PDF format only
- in a small number of instances text may have insufficient contrast against the background colour
We are currently addressing these issues by adding in appropriate alt-text into images, captioning video content and updating older content (eg interactive elements, pdfs) to make it accessible.
Reporting accessibility problems
If you find any problems not listed on this page, or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, you can report an accessibility issue to curiosity-partnership@york.ac.uk
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
We are committed to making our 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, because of the issues below:
Issues with audio and video
- Some videos do not have captions.
- Some videos use automatically generated captions, which may be inaccurate.
Issues with keyboard navigation
- Some elements which reveal hidden content - such as tabbed content - may be difficult to use, particularly when used with a screen reader.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
- We will continue to review and update Care Confidence to maximise accessibility.
- External suppliers of our online systems have been asked about the standards that their systems meet, and when they plan to meet the required standards if they do not already do so. All new system procurements will ask suppliers to provide information about accessibility standards.
- We are ensuring that our development processes include accessibility considerations and testing as standard.
Preparation of This Accessibility Statement
This statement was prepared on 7th February 2025. It was last reviewed on 7th February 2025.
TThis website was last tested on 7th February 2025. The test was carried out by the research team using a combination of automated tools (WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool and NVDA screen reader) and manual assessments to evaluate compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA standards.