Accessibility statement for My Needs
This accessibility statement applies to the My Needs website.
This website is run by Thrive by Design and Hive IT on behalf of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
How you should be able to use this website
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and aim to achieve the recommended government standard for web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA).
As a user with accessible needs, you should be able to:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
- zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader
We also aim to make the website text as simple as possible to understand.
If you have a disability, AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use.
We are committed to making our content fully accessible to screen readers, to do this we aim to:
- write in short, clear sentences and paragraphs
- avoid using unnecessarily complex words and phrases
- add heading levels to all our sub-headings
- use descriptive and informative page titles
- do not use abbreviations such as etc, ie, eg, tel and mob
- create webpages with a logical navigation and reading order and that can be fully navigated using the keyboard
- provide concise and meaningful alternative text to non-decorative images and icons (for decorative images, we leave the alt text field blank)
- create instructions and action buttons that make sense out of context and don’t rely on sensory information like colour or sound
- do not use colour or position as the only way of conveying content or distinguishing visual elements
- make link text meaningful so that it describes what the reader should expect to find when they click it
- do not write out web addresses or URLs
How accessible this website is
Feedback and contact information
If you need to contact us, please email the team.
Please note, this email inbox is not monitored every day. We will aim get back to you in 10 working days.
