DER-IC Accessibility Statement

Accessibility statement for DER-IC

Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centres (DER-IC) is committed to providing a website that is accessible to all users. Content on our website is designed so that it is easy to find, read, understand, and interact with.

We aim to achieve the recommended government standard for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and follow general principles of usability, which should help all visitors to our websites.

This accessibility statement applies to www.der-ic.org.uk.

This website is managed by Newcastle University, 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 and fonts
  • 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)

For further information and support:

Our website may contain links to third-party content. DER-IC is not responsible for the accessibility of this content. However, we are committed to working with partners to ensure material they are responsible for meets accessibility standards where possible and that they have their own accessibility statements.

Feedback and contact information

We’re committed to improving the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, you can report an accessibility issue.

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

We’ll review and respond to your request and get back to you in 5 working days. Contact us via mailto:info@der-ic.org.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).

How accessible is this website?

DER-IC is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility regulations 2018, further information can be found on this website Central Digital and Data Office Digital Accessibility guidance.

Our webpages are accessible however, these are elements that DER-IC is aware of and working on becoming more accessible:

  • Some pages have elements with button functionality which should be tagged for assertive technology
  • Some titles don’t have consistent hierarchy
  • Some active popups should be tagged for assistive technology
  • Manipulatively hidden interactive elements should be excluded from assistive technology
  • Manipulatively hidden interactive elements should be excluded from tabindex
  • Objects and embedded text of images should be described for assistive technology
  • Background images behaving as standard images should be tagged and described
  • Figure elements should have text or be excluded from assistive technology
  • Image map areas should be described for assistive technology
  • Tracker images (pixels) should be excluded from assistive technology
  • Form fields should not have duplicate ID selectors
  • Required form fields should be tagged for assistive technology
  • Validation status of form fields should be represented in the code
  • Incorrect use of aria-describedby/labelledby
  • Carousels should be labelled accordingly and be presented as landmarks
  • Next and previous buttons should be labelled accordingly
  • Carousels should not be tagged as live regions for assistive technology
  • Carousel pagination buttons should be labelled accordingly
  • Tables used for building layouts should be tagged as presentation
  • Avoid nesting tables or exclude their role from assistive technology
  • Headless tables should have fallback rows for assistive technology
  • Deleted text should include an additional description
  • Breadcrumbs should be labelled accordingly and tagged as navigation
  • Reviews and ratings should be labelled and described accordingly

 

What we’re doing to improve Accessibility and Inclusive Design

  • We are guided by Hemingway readability, other web content standards with the aim to make the website text as simple as possible to understand.
  • We used a website optimisation tool Accesibe to monitor and scan a representative sample of our website
  • We have checked a representative sample of the website using an accessibility checklist and use tools such as WebAIM for colour contrast checks.
  • We are including accessibility as a fundamental part of all future web page and websites we create. This includes moving to new web content templates, developing and testing new functionality to meet web accessibility standards.

We are making content creators and subject matter experts aware of accessibility issues. This will increase knowledge of accessibility across the organisation with the aim to improve accessible content from initiation through to publishing.

Disproportionate burden

We are not currently claiming that any accessibility problems would be a disproportionate burden to fix.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was first prepared on 15 January 2025. It was last reviewed on 4 February 2025.