Accessibility Statement
This accessibility statement applies to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, www.geh.nhs.uk.
This website is run by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. 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.
• We've also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet (opens in new window) has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
How accessible is this website?
This website was built to be as accessible as possible:
• Text can be resized through built in website tools, via a 3rd party plugin or via browser resizing options.
• Care has been taken to ensure colour combinations deliver a contrast that allows visitors to easily read information. Modern browsers also enable custom user stylesheets to be applied.
• Site uses HTML5 semantic mark-up and therefore performs well when read by screen readers.
We know some parts of the website are not fully accessible:
• A selection of images are missing alternative text descriptions.
• Certain pdf documents are not accessible.
Screen readers
Our website is fully compliant with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver. For information on accessing free read aloud technology please visit click here (opens in new window)
Feedback and contact information
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, contact: communications
Reasonable adjustments
The Trust will make reasonable adjustments to accommodate accessibility requirement on request including the provision of information in alternative formats.
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) (opens in new window) .
Technical information about this website's accessibility
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust 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 highlighted in the section below.
Non-accessible content
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations and disproportionate burden. The content listed below is non-accessible in line with WCAG 2.2 AA standards for the following reasons.
- There are a small number of editorial and technical malformed mark-ups - for example, image alternative text not being provided. These are being worked through methodically, with additional editor training provided where appropriate.
Content that's not within the scope of accessibility regulations
PDFs and other documents - Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 (opens in new window) if they're not essential to providing our services.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 6/9/2024 and last reviewed on 15/11/2024.
This website is tested monthly. The approach has been to investigate a small representative selection of page types from the website using a manually run WCAG 2.2 compliant evaluation tool, and methodically resolve any issues. Issues causing the greatest impact have been prioritised.
We intend to work towards WCAG2.2 AA compliance – and where feasible AAA compliance – by incrementally resolving issues as the number of pages investigated increases.
In time, we hope to be in a position where WCAG 2.2 evaluations are regularly scheduled and include all pages.