How we decided our objectives
As a learning disability trust, accessibility is important to us. When we created this website, making it accessible was a priority. It continues to be a priority as we add and update information.
The majority of our website is accessible however we know that some of our documents do not meet the accessibility requirements.
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018, if they are not essential to the provision of our services. We do not intend to create accessible versions of these documents.
We also have a disproportionate burden assessment for documents not essential to patient care and the provision of our services published after September 2018.
However, we believe that meeting the objectives in our roadmap will continue to improve the accessibility of the information we share.
Documents on our website are created by people from all across our Trust. It is more realistic that we will be able to publish accessible content when accessibility has been considered by document authors from the start. Therefore, a key priority in our accessibility roadmap is educating more staff about accessibility.
Our objectives
- Autumn 2023: Launch an educational internal campaign about accessibility. Our campaign will signpost staff to information about accessibility – why it is important and how to create accessible content.
- Autumn 2023: Update our policy process to signpost policy writers and other document authors to our information for staff about how to write accessible content.
- Autumn 2023: Update our policy process to ask policy writers to use the check accessibility function in Word and fix all errors.
- Winter 2023/24: Make sure staff have access to Word templates that make it easier to create content that is accessible.
By following this roadmap, we expect the number of non-accessible documents we publish to decrease.
Yearly accessibility audits
We get this website audited every year. We look to address anything that the audit highlights to us. The last audit was in November 2022.
Of the pages that were audited in our 2022 audit, there were some issues of non-compliance, which we have fixed:
- We updated some of our plugins to be more accessible
- We fixed some broken links
- MIXD, our digital agency, updated our cookie policy banner as it was not 100% keyboard accessible
If you have any feedback, please email tewv.enquiries@nhs.net.
