Accessibility
East of England Clinical Senate is committed to ensuring that this website is accessible to the widest possible range of people. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, or if you have difficulty using any part of it, please contact us on england.eoesenate@nhs.net
The value of the East of England Clinical Senate websites to our disabled and ageing audiences depend on its accessibility. This is an area of importance to East of England Clinical Senate and in keeping with our public-service remit, and our obligations under the Equality Act, we are committed to ensuring that our content is as accessible to disabled and elderly people as reasonably possible.
We aim for a high level of usability for our entire audience, following best-practice accessibility guidelines. We engage with disabled, non-disabled and elderly people through website development to fully understand user requirements.
Our objective is to conform to the Guidelines for UK government websites, which support the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA.
East of England Strategic Clinical Networks and Clinical Senate is committed to ensuring the level of accessibility for disabled and elderly users is maintained over time. In partnership with the website developers, we will test the website with key target users regularly over time. Disabled and elderly users should always be able to carry out the following tasks:
- Be able to read all text on the website
- Be able to view all images and colours
- Find and download documents
- View the Twitter feed
- Be able to clearly follow hyperlinks
If there are areas of our website that are unlikely to be accessible to people with particular impairments, we will ensure that there is clear instruction for how to access the information by alternative means.
For further details on our Accessibility Policy, please email us at england.eoesenate@nhs.net.
