Accessibility statement for Beside You

This accessibility statement applies to all content and design of the Beside You site.

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 up to 200% 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)

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.

How accessible this website is

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

  • some buttons do not yet meet colour contrast standards

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 you can contact us here.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 20 working days.

Translating our website

We have an option on our site to translate into multiple different languages powered by Google Translate.

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, then please let us know contacting us through any of our options here.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 20 working days.

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).

Complaints

If you have any complaints you wish to raise then please use our contact details listed on our contact us page.

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 are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Beside You is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Most of our website works correctly on any web technology.

For security reasons, we only support TLS 1.2 and higher security protocols, and this means that some older browsers will not show the site.

How our site looks and works is based on HTML5, and we test for and support the following browsers:

You may experience unexpected behaviour in other browsers, although we use fully validated code which should work on any modern (HTML5) browser.

Internet Explorer is no longer supported as this browser is at the end of its life cycle.

Find out about Microsoft withdrawing support for Internet Explorer.

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

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

  • some button colour contrast options don’t meet standards
  • some form fields don’t have labelling
  • some button text is clipped when the browser window is resized

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Colour contrast does not meet minimum requirement – 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)
    • We are going to change the button elements to a different colour that increases the contrast. Some were fixed on the 28th September 2023. Some fixes are still waiting to be completed – will be sorted by the 31st October 2023

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 26/09/2023. It was last reviewed on 24/10/2023.

This website was last tested on 24/10/2023.