Accessibility

Our website is currently undergoing redevelopment. As part of that process we are working to make it as accessible and useable as possible for all abilities and disabilities.

We are amending our site to make it easy to use by using:

• easier-to-read colours

• larger fonts

• plain English

• keyboard-only navigation

Feedback

If you cannot access any part of this site or want to report an accessibility problem please contact us at SVRUComms@scotland.police.uk or you can call 01786 896785 during office hours.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission enforces the accessibility regulations (the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

If you’re unhappy with our response you can get in touch with the Equality Advisory and Support Service. They are an independent advice service and can provide guidance on what to do next.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Scottish Violence Reduction Unit 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 and exemptions’ listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-Compliance with the accessibility regulations

• PDFs are likely to contain incorrect document mark-up/structure (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#section-headings)

• PDF diagrams are likely to not be suitable for assistive technology (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#non-text-content)

• Video content is unlikely to contain full audio description (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#audio-description-prerecorded)

• Resizing text is likely to alter the display of pages at higher zoom level (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#resize-text)
  

• Search function should be built into whole website. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#navigable

• Web page titles should be descriptive of the content on the page. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#page-titled

• Functionality to bypass sections of the website with keyboard shortcuts should be added to the website. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#bypass-blocks

• Line and character spacing to be altered across the website. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#visual-presentation

• More ways to navigate to various pages through out the website should be added. For example being able to use more than just the menu to link between pages. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#multiple-ways

• keyboard focus indicator to be made clearer for keyboard navigation of the website. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#focus-visible

Home Page

• Image carousel requires ability for user to alter the default settings of the auto scroll – https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#enough-time

About Us page

• Hover effect and blurring of text on hover over the buttons should be removed. Button should be redesigned to stand out and be more readable. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#perceivable

• Pop-ups need to be changed or redesigned. When activated popups become uncontrollable without the cursor and focus is not shifted to the popup. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#content-on-hover-or-focus

One Community page

• Button should be redesigned to stand out and be more readable. Colour scheme change necessary https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#perceivable

YDT Glasgow & Dundee pages

• Image carousel requires ability for user to alter the default settings of the auto scroll – https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#enough-time

• Pop-ups need to be changed or redesigned. When activated popups become uncontrollable without the cursor and focus is not shifted to the popup. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#content-on-hover-or-focus

Research Hub

• Search function should be provided for easy navigation of hosted documentation. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#navigable

• Drop down is not in focus when using alternative page navigation – only accessible by cursor. Javascript changes to the block required to allow for this content to be included in page focus. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#navigable

These issues will be addressed and resolved by 01/03/2023 with the ongoing redesign of the SVRU website.

Material not included in the regulations

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other forms of documents which were published before September 23^rd 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

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

What we are doing to improve accessibility

This website is currently being redesigned and this will be carried out in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. As part of this process an external accessibility audit will be carried out. While this work is ongoing we will continue to carry out internal reviews of content published to the website and design system components used to construct the site.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 21st November 2022. It was last reviewed on 14th of November 2022.

This website was last tested on 14th of November 2022 The test was carried out by the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.