Accessibility Statement for Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire

Scope

Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually working to improve the user experience for everyone and to ensure the relevant accessibility standards are attained.

Measures to support accessibility

Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire is fully compliant with WCAG 2.1 level AA and partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AAA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire:

Contact us using our Contact form.

We aim to respond to feedback as soon as we can.

Assessment approach

Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire assessed the accessibility of Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire by the following approaches:

  • Penetration Testing
  • Self-evaluation

Access Keys

The Quality Assurance North East and Yorkshire uses the following access keys, which follow Government guidelines:

  • 1 - Home page
  • 3 - Site map
  • 0 - Access Key Details
  • 9 - Contact form

How to use these keys

Windows:

Chrome/Firefox - hold down the 'Alt' key and press the assigned key on the keyboard

Internet Explorer - do the same but also press the 'enter' key to navigate to a page

Mac:

Hold down the left-hand 'Control' key and press the assigned key on the keyboard

Accessibility links

Accessibility Statement V2.0 06/03/2023