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Accessibility statement for Climate Change Committee

This accessibility statement applies to the Climate Change Committee and UK Climate Risk websites.

This website is run by Slingshot. 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 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

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, though we’re committed to improving accessibility in these areas:

  • Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
  • Most older PDFs do not have a title tag.
  • When we publish new content we’ll make sure the naming of PDFs meets accessibility standards.
  • Some images may not have alt tags. When we add new images to the website we will include alt tags.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information published on this website in a different format, please use email enquiries@theccc.org.uk. We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 20 days.

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, get in touch with us using the email enquiries@theccc.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 comments, please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

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

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
  • Most older PDFs do not have a title tag as described in WCAG 2.4.2 Page titled.
  • We are currently adding title tags to all of the PDFs that have been uploaded to this website since this accessibility statement was first prepared. We hope to complete this work before the end of August 2023.
  • Most older PDFs do not have a title tag.
  • When we publish new content we’ll make sure the naming of PDFs meets accessibility standards.
  • Some images may not have alt tags. When we add new images to the website we will include alt tags.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

1) PDFs and other documents

2) Live video

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 17 Sep 2021. It was last reviewed on 15 May 2023.

This website has been tested by the Government Digital Service and the reports for all tests can be found at the links below:

Accessibility report on 14 February 2023.

Accessibility report on 27 April 2021.

A number of issues were identified in these reports and were rectified as quickly as possible. Some issues relating to PDFs are still present and we are working to resolve them as soon as we can.

A mixture of manual checks and automated tests were used to find the most common barriers to users with accessibility needs.

Manual checks included using each page without a mouse, viewing the page at different zoom settings, simulating and physically viewing the page on small screens.

The Government Digital Service tests were completed using different settings in the Google Chrome browser on Mac OSX with a 15-inch screen. Their automated tests were completed using the latest version of axe: https://www.deque.com/axe/

Our tests were completed on PC, Mac, tablet and mobile devices running iOS and Android using a variety of screen sizes. The following browsers were used: Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Mac. Chrome and Edge on PC, Chrome and Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android. Our automated tests were completed using WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: https://wave.webaim.org/

A number of issues were identified on our tests and were resolved as quickly as possible. They included:

  1. Some links and buttons did not work correctly using a keyboard as described in WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard.
  2. Poor colour contrast was found on some elements on keyboard focus and mouse hover as described in WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum).

Some issues have been identified and we will we are working to resolve them as soon as we can. We hope to resolve these issues before the end of August 2023. They include:

  1. Missing first level heading on some pages
  2. Skipped heading levels on some pages
  3. Empty links