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Website Accessibility

Accessibility statement for Sheff News

This accessibility statement applies to Sheff News (www.sheffnews.com).

The website is run by Sheffield City Council. 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

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

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

How accessible this website is

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

  • Contrast ratio of 4:5:1 is not present in some orange background/ white text and light grey background/ white text areas on the site homepage.
  • Audio description of pre-recorded video is not provided, pre-recorded videos are captioned.
  • Some web pages have titles which serve as headlines for the articles on the page but may not definitively describe the page topic or purpose.
  • Some text which has a link may not clearly describe where the link takes the site visitor on older articles, e.g. may have text linked like, click ‘here’.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille email press@sheffield.gov.uk.  We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 2 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

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 press@sheffield.gov.uk by email.

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) https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/ .

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Sheffield City Council 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 Counter Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) AA standard, due to the non-compliance and exemptions’ listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Content that’s not within the scope of the regulations

Some things are exempt from the accessibility regulations and you may find some of those on this site. If you do find content which you are not able to access in a format suitable for your needs please contact us and we will do our best to help if possible.

  • Pre-recorded audio and video published before 23 September 2020
  • live audio and video
  • heritage collections like scanned manuscripts
  • PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018
  • maps
  • third party content that’s not under our control and we did not pay for it or develop it – for example, social media ‘like’ buttons

Disproportionate burden

News articles published beyond 12 months ago will not be made compliant as this would represent a disproportionate burden to the service. Some news articles may have the following non-compliance areas:

  • Some web pages have titles which serve as headlines for the articles on the page so may not definitively describe the page topic or purpose.
  • Some text which has a link may not clearly describe where the link takes the site visitor on older articles.
  • Some alt-text on images is not present

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Contrast ratio of 4:5:1 is not present in some orange background/ white text and light grey background/ white text areas on the site homepage.
  • Audio description of pre-recorded video is not provided
  • Some web pages have titles which serve as headlines for the articles on the page but may not definitively describe the page topic or purpose.
  • Some news article page text has links may not clearly describe where the link takes the site visitor on older articles, e.g. may have hyperlinked text, click ‘here’.
  • Some user interface components may not have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 against adjacent colours.