Accessibility statement for NHS Leadership Academy
This page was last updated 15 February 2023.
This accessibility statement applies to www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk
This website is run by NHS Leadership Academy. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.
For example, that means you should be able to:
- use your web browser 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)
- access the website using a mobile or tablet.
On sections that don’t provide technical information, we’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.
Non-accessible Content – non-compliance with regulations (if applicable)
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
- Live video streams do not have captions
- The events area has some link descriptions missing
PDFs and other documents
Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs on medical policy information.
We plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
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. However, if there is a specific document that you would like to request in HTML format, we will do our best to oblige where possible and practicable.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations, however to ensure accessibility, we record our live videos and caption them where possible, these can be found on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/NHSLeadershipAcademy
Events area tools and transactions
The online events booking is built and hosted through third party software and ‘skinned’ to look like our website.
We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the issues with navigation and accessing information, and with interactive tools and transactions. We believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations. We will make another assessment when the supplier contract is up for renewal, likely to be in the next six months.
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, or audio recording:
- email [email protected]
We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible.
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 the communications team with details of the problem you have encountered.
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, please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
Contacting us
There are a number of ways that you can contact us find out more about how to contact NHS Leadership Academy.
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
NHS Leadership Academy is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
Audits have identified a significant number of PDFs that do not meet accessibility guidelines.
As part of our work to improve the accessibility of this website, we are reviewing our policy on PDFs and other methods of delivering information with a view to making them as accessible as possible.