Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre

This website is run by the National Crime Agency in the UK.

We have developed this website to make sure it is usable by everyone, whatever their ability or disability.

We want to make sure this website is accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

You can get the best out of our website by updating your internet browser to the latest version.

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

How accessible is this website

We have built this website to be accessible with common assistive technologies and different ways of using websites.

This means:

You can move around and use most of the website without a mouse, by using a keyboard or assistive technology such as speech recognition or a screen reader
You can increase the font size or zoom in on content
You can change the colours or the fonts

We have also used plain English principles to make our content clear and easy to understand.

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

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

There is no visible keyboard tab focus on the logo in the header ( WCAG 2.4.7Focus Visible) across all our website pages.
Horizontal scrolling is required when the page is zoomed in at 400% or viewed in mobile view (WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow)
When the page is zoomed in at 400% or viewed in mobile view, the text spills off the page. When the user scrolls the extra page border is black. The black background fails with the text (WCAG 1.4.3 Constrast(Minimum))
On our CEOP-reporting page A ‘Not ready to make a report yet?’ notice pops up when tabbing past ‘under 18 years old’ or if focus leaves the page. This is an unexpected change of context (WCAG 3,2.1 On Focus)
Our ‘what is online child sexual abuse and exploitation’ page Is missing a title element (WCAG 2.4.2 Page Titled)

What we are doing to improve accessibility

This website will be regularly reviewed with manual audits and by scans with an automated testing tool by our website provider.

We are working to correct any non-compliances as soon as possible.

Feedback and contact information

We welcome your feedback on using this website.

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: ceopeducation@nca.gov.uk

If there is any content that you cannot access and you need in a different format, then please contact us and we will provide you with an accessible alternative.

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 complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS)

Technical information

This statement was prepared on 30 September 2022.

This website was last tested on 21.02.2020. The test was carried out by Netcel.

The level of accessibility was tested by running automated and manual tests that determined where areas of the site may be difficult for users with a wide variety of accessibility needs may have trouble accessing content.

We did manual and automatic report generation testing to determine where the sites didn’t comply with the desired accessibility level according to WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

For automated reporting we used :

Lighthouse in Google Chrome
WAVE chrome plugin

For manual testing we used

Chrome web developer tools
NVDA Screen reader (desktop screen reader)
Talkback for Android (mobile screen reader)
WCAG contrast checker.

We tested inputs for :

Mouse (desktop)
Keyboard (desktop)
Touch (mobile and desktop)
Swipe (mobile screen readers)