Accessibility

Accessibility statement for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

This accessibility statement applies to www.nihrc.org

This website is run by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

This means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the pages 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 have also made the website text as clear as possible to understand. However, we welcome any feedback on areas you think are unclear. Contact us by email: info@nihrc.org

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

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission website includes BrowseAloud accessibility software. BrowseAloud adds speech, reading and translation support tools to online content. It works on all major browsers and platforms, including mobile phones and tablets. All features are accessed from an easy-to-use floating toolbar located at the top right menu on all web pages.

Every effort has been made to make this website accessible as possible.

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

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• some of our pages contain content from systems provided by an external supplier, including our cookie consent management platform, CookieFirst. The ‘We use cookies’ heading within the cookie banner can't be marked as a heading.

The site’s layout is fully compatible with popular screen reading software. In technical language, all pages on this site should be valid to HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML 5) 1.0 and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

This website conforms to the UK government guidelines for websites.

It also follows the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 and strives to meet level AA checkpoints.

If you need information in a different format please email us at info@nihrc.org

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website.

If you find any problems that are not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, please get in touch via info@nihrc.org

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission 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 a public authority responds to your complaint about the accessibility of its website, please contact the Equality Commissioner for Northern Ireland for further advice, email: ComplaintsOfficers@equalityni.org or telephone 028 90 500 600.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

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

• some documents are in PDF or Word format and are not fully accessible
• some videos do not have captions or audio descriptions
• the NIHRC website contains some content that is externally embedded or integrated, such as YouTube media player and cookie consent management platform, CookieFirst.

PDFs and other documents

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.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

This website links to documents and files in a number of formats. You may need special software to read some of these files.

The links below enable you to download free software to allow you to open different types of files.

• Help with PDF files
• Free viewer for Microsoft Word
• Free viewer for Microsoft Excel
• Free viewer for Microsoft Powerpoint

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Third Party Content/Platforms

The NIHRC website contains some content that is externally embedded or integrated, such as YouTube media player and cookie consent management platform, CookieFirst. This is third-party content that is neither funded nor developed by, nor under the control of, the public sector body.

Within CookieFirst, the ‘We use cookies’ heading in cookie banner cannot be marked as a heading.

Where resource allows, we do our best to make this content as accessible as possible (for example, by making sure any video we upload to YouTube has appropriate subtitled, captions and audio description). However, we do not have influence over the accessibility of the platform itself (for example, the YouTube video player functionality). We will continue to investigate alternative media players.

A high standard of quality control was conducted to ensure usability, accessibility and functionality ​of the new NIHRC website.

We adhere to ​industry guidelines for accessibility​ which include text equivalents for multimedia, captions, non-colour availability, appropriate colour contrasts and frequency regulations. Both a mix of manual checking by expert developers and automated software to fully scan the website for accessibility problems was used.

This statement was prepared on 9th July 2021. It was last reviewed on 9 April 2023.

This website was last tested on 29th March 2023 by the Digital Accessibility Centre.

This audit approach sampled a number of pages to test which included some of the most visited web pages, online forms and pages with differing types of content.

The audit reports are available on request at info@nihrc.org

Our website support company Green17 is implementing accessibility fixes based on the audit report.

This statement will be reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.