Accessibility statement for jobs.barnet.gov.uk

Accessibility statement overview

The accessibility statement covers the jobs.barnet.gov.uk website

We've made every effort to make the site as accessible and easy to use for everyone by supporting the latest versions of browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.

We're constantly working towards improving the accessibility of our website to ensure we provide equal access to all our users, by including accessibility as part of our digital strategy.

Accessibility features of our site include:

zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
support use of speech recognition software wherever possible
support use of screen reader technology wherever possible (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA)
use the site in plain text format (without styling)
maintaining colour/contrast ratios for text
keyboard accessible navigation
Compliance status

This site is non-compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

Reporting accessibility problems with this site

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 in particular areas, please email webmaster@barnet.gov.uk

It would be helpful if your email contained the following:

how you are accessing the site, for example on your phone, on a laptop, on a tablet
which browser you are using, for example Firefox, Edge, Chrome or Safari and include the version number
the nature of your disability, if any
a description of the problem

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)

Non-accessible content

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

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

Videos do not have audio descriptions

This does not comply with WCAG 1.2.5 Audio description (prerecorded)
We are working with the video content creator and the service responsible for the https://jobs.barnet.gov.uk/ to add audio descriptions to the Team Barnet - Our Staff video. We aim have the accessible video live by Friday 9 June, 2023.

Some content is styled to look like a list, but is not a list in the code

This does not comply with WCAG 1.3.1 Info and relationships
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Some content is not contained in a paragraph

Some content may appear as a heading when it is not a heading in the code

Not all required fields in forms are marked as being required

Some fields will not auto complete as expected

This does not comply with WCAG 1.3.5 Identify Input purpose
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Sign up for job alerts fields have low contrast

This does not comply with WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (minimum)
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Menu button is not accessible by a keyboard when viewer is zoomed in

This does not comply with WCAG 1.4.4 resize text
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Some of our images contain text

This does not comply with WCAG 1.4.5 images of text
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

The more jobs button cannot be activated using a keyboard

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Some headings do not describe the content

This does not comply with WCAG 2.4.6 Headings and Tables
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Skip to content link does not become visible

This does not comply with WCAG 2.4.7 Focus Visible
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Enter your details to subscribe button doesn’t show when it is focussed

Current Vacancies page elements are barely visible when focussed

Some visible labels are not read correctly by screen readers

This does not comply with WCAG 2.5.3 Label in name
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Links may not have text with them

This does not comply with WCAG 4.1.2. Name, role, value
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

Screen reader users and not made aware of the current status of the filter button

When search results change users with a screen reader are not alerted to change in the results counter

This does not comply with WCAG 4.1.3 Status messages
We are liaising with HR services and their third-party recruitment website supplier HireRoad to make the necessary accessibility changes required under WCAG regulations. A roll out date for this work has been set as Friday 9 June, 2023

How we tested this website

We use an automated accessibility checker, Silktide. This tool is used to check the accessibility of our website.

What we're doing to improve accessibility

We are working to constantly improve the accessibility of this website.

This statement was prepared on 30 March 2023
It was last updated on 22 May 2023