Accessibility

Accessibility on this website is guided by government standards and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG guidelines are widely accepted as the international standard for accessibility on the web.

Whilst we aim to make this website accessible to all users and achieve a WCAG conformance level ‘AA’ or higher; we continually work with stakeholders to ensure that conformance level ‘A’ is adhered to as a minimum.

If you experience any accessibility issues on this site or have any comment, please contact us.

This website was reviewed in May 2023

ReadSpeaker Accessibility Tool

Public Health Network Cymru’s website utilises ReadSpeaker webReader, which allows content interaction on a personal level and offers important learning tools that help understanding and make it easier to access our online content on the go. See below the accessibility features of ReadSpeaker in our website:

Text to Speech
Reads the content of web pages out loud.

Reading Languages
50+ languages and 200+ voices to choose from. See list of reading languages here.

Simultaneous Highlighting
The words and sentences being read are highlighted in separate colors, making it easy to read along as you listen.

Translation
Translate a selected text to a number of languages and have the text read in the target language. See the list of available languages here.

Settings
Personalize reading speed, highlighting colors, and more.

Dictionary
Select a word and find its definition. See the list of supported languages here.

Click and Listen
Click in a paragraph and it will read automatically.

Text Mode
View a clutter-free version of the web page with text in your preferred font, size, and colors.

Text Selection
Select a text and click the listen icon that appears.

Page Mask
Horizontal bar that can be moved along with the reading to bring out the lines being read by shading the rest of the screen.

Mp3 Download
Download an audio version of your content for offline listening.

Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 compliant: Listen button, player, toolbar, and pop-up control panel are fully keyboard accessible. Click here for the ReadSpeaker Accessibility Statement.

Enlarge Text
Text being read is displayed at the bottom of the page in large font size.

Help
Clear instructions on how to use each feature.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliance listed below.

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

Some images are not captioned or described
This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content

Some videos are not captioned or audio described
This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Pre-recorded) Level A; and 1.2.2 Captions Level A

Some links to external resources, documents and PDFs are not clearly labelled because of their titles
This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) Level A

Some images contain text that will not be compatible with an auto-reader tool
This fails WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.5 Images of Text Level AA

Disproportionate burden

Within the current resource, we will work towards making our website more accessible in line with the WCAG version 2.1 Level A and Level AA guidelines.

Navigation and accessing information

  • There is no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option).

  • It is not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content.

  • It is not possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping.

PDFs and other documents

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they are not essential to providing our services. We do not plan to fix any PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018, however we will endeavour to make any new PDFs or Word documents accessible wherever possible.

We are aware that some external resources, documents and PDFs do not meet the accessibility guidelines, for example, are not compatible with an auto-reader tool and contain images without descriptions. We are in constant review of these external resources in line with the accessibility guidelines to see which of these resources are essential to keep, or can be removed or replaced with resources that meet the accessibility guidelines.

Live video

We endeavour to add captions to live audio or video streams wherever possible, however live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. We will always aim to provide subtitled versions of pre-recorded videos that we produce.

Read aloud

  • Edge: Click the ellipsis in the top-right corner to open the drop down menu. Click “Read Aloud” to open the control panel, which will appear under the URL bar. Press Play to read the page from the top down, or click to highlight text on the page and press play for the Read Aloud to begin at the highlighted text.
  • PDFs: Adobe Acrobat Reader has a “Read Aloud” function. With the PDF open, go to “View”, then “Read Out Loud” and click “Activate Read Out Loud”. Double click to select text to start the Read Aloud. Deactivate Read Aloud in the same menu as you activate it. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adjusting text size

  • Google Chrome: Click the vertical ellipsis to open the menu and go to “Settings”, scroll down to “Appearance” and see “Font size”.
  • Edge: Click the ellipsis in the top-right corner to open the drop down menu. Go to “Settings”, on the side-menu click “Appearance” and see “Font size”.

Please note that the above settings may differ depending on the browser version.

Downloading files

You may need to download the following readers / viewers to access different document formats on this site.

These can be downloaded free from relevant external websites as indicated below:

Download Microsoft Word Viewer

Download Adobe Acrobat Reader

This website was reviewed in May 2023