Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for FVSC Website

Forth Valley Sensory Centre is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Forth Valley Sensory Centre takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of FVSC Website:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
  • Appoint an accessibility officer and/or ombudsperson.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility targets and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
  • Include people with disabilities in our design personas

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Forth Valley Sensory Centre is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Additional accessibility considerations

The website is disabilities friendly, barrierless, user, keyboard and screen reader friendly. Surpasses the WordPress accessibility requirements. Theme itself contains and applies proper headings structure, uses ARIA landmark roles and attributes, adds informative “read more” links, keyboard accessible navigation (applied also on mobile navigation), skip links, the default color scheme complies to level AA color contrast ratio, and others.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of FVSC Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on FVSC Website:

We try to respond to feedback within .

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

FVSC Website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Cross browser support: Internet Explorer 11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Technical specifications

Accessibility of FVSC Website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Assessment approach

Forth Valley Sensory Centre assessed the accessibility of FVSC Website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

Forth Valley Sensory Centre
Jacquie Winning
Centre Manager

Formal complaints

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 2 business days, and to propose a solution within 10 business days. You are entitled to escalate a complaint to [organizational or legal entity], should you be dissatisfied with our response to you.

Summary

This statement covers the website forthvalleysensorycentre.org

This website is run by D-Digital.co.uk. A web design and development company.

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 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 (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
• Some of our older video content does not have captions.