Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to edinburghpartnership.scot.

This website is run by the City of Edinburgh Council. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels, line height, letter spacing and fonts
• zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate the website using just a keyboard
• navigate the website using speech recognition software
• listen to the website using a screen reader.

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

How accessible this website is

edinburghpartnership.scot is partially accessible to AA level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

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

• Some PDF documents do not provide information on their structure or the role of components, which may make access with screen reader difficult.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille email

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

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, contact communityplanning@edinburgh.gov.uk

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 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The City of Edinburgh Council 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 due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-accessible content

Disproportionate burden

The community plans PDF documents do not provide information on their structure or the role of components, which may make access with screen reader difficult. This fails success criterion 1.3.1 info and relationships.

The community plans PDF documents have some content that is not read in a meaningful order, so may be confusing to screen reader users. Tables cause particular issues. This fails success criterion 1.3.2 meaningful sequence.

These documents are created with a number of partners and are due for renewal at the end of the year. Due to this, we will not make the existing files accessible, but those published at the end of the year will be fully accessible. In the meantime, for copies of these documents in another format contact communityplanning@edinburgh.gov.uk.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 22 September 2020. It was last reviewed on 28 September 2020.

This website was last tested on 22 September 2020. The test was carried out by the City of Edinburgh Council’s web team.

We tested

• every page on the site
• a random selection of three PDFs for board papers
• every community plan.

Testing was done manually, with screen reader access tested using NVDA screen reader, with some automated assistance from the WAVE Evaluation Tool.