Accessibility Statement for Taurus Healthcare website

Taurus Healthcare are committed to making its website accessible to all. If you have a disability AbilityNet has guides on how to make using websites easier.

Measures to support accessibility

Taurus Healthcare takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of its website:

• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
• Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
• Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
• Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
• Website Functionality

The website has an Accessibility assistant widget with the following functions:

• Low Vision – Enlarges text and increase contrast
• Colour blindness – adjusts colours to help people better distinguish elements
• Dyslexia-Friendly – Applies a special font with extra spacing
• Seizure Safe- Disables animations
• Reduce Distraction – Applies a reading mask
• Motor Assistance – enlarges interactive elements and enables keyboard control
• Cognitive Learning – simplified text and highlights key elements
• Keyboard Navigation – enables keyboard navigation

The assistant widget is linked to our Google Lighthouse score which gives a real-time score of the website. At the time of writing, this score is 100.

Website Language

The Language used on the Taurus website is simple and succinct. However, because some medical terms are used, some things may be difficult to understand. If you feel a page is difficult to understand or you require clarification, please contact us.

If you want to translate a page you can use your web browser. However, we have also included a website translator button at the base of the site.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Taurus Healthcare website is conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Taurus Healthcare website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Taurus Healthcare website:

Phone: 01432 270636
E-mail: quality.taurus@nhs.net
Postal Address: Nelson House, Whitecross Rd, Hereford HR4 0DG
Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Taurus Healthcare website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

Screen Readers, Screen Mannifiers, speech recognition software and alternative input devices. Taurus Healthcare checks the most popular assistive technologies in the accessibility audits. However, if there is a specific technology you are using that is not compatible please contact us.

The website works with the most commonly used browsers, especially those that are compatible with assistive technologies: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari Opera

Taurus Healthcare website is not compatible with:

Browsers older than 3 major versions and Mobile operating systems older than 5 years
Technical specifications

Accessibility of Taurus Healthcare website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

HTML
WAI-ARIA
CSS
JavaScript
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Taurus Healthcare website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Taurus Healthcare website:

Third party plugins such as calendars, NHS apps/widgets, site search, social media feeds : May not be compliant as they are provided by a third party. We cannot ensure the accessibility of third parties . We try to ensure we only include third party content when necessary and that it is compliant with accessibility standards . If you feel there are issues with any content please contact us.

PDF’s Some of our PDFs may not be fully accessible to screen reader software. But the PDF’s are not essential to providing our services

Videos All videos made in-house have subtitles burned onto the video and the ability to autogenerate captions. However, videos made by third parties may not have this feature.

Background images All images in the website contain alt text. Images such as background images may not have alt text as these are decorative.

Assessment approach

Taurus Healthcare assessed the accessibility of Taurus Healthcare website by the following approaches:

Automatic evaluation using online tools.

Using aeldata.com/ our website has a score off 100/100

* Taurus healthcare favour manual audits to test WCAG Compliance due to the number of false positives automatic audits give.

Manual Audits

Taurus healthcare carry out annual audits of the website to check for accessibility issues. The audit includes POUR principles and a link to specific WCAG criteria

1. Perceivable is about making content available through multiple senses, e.g., sight, sound, touch and speech.

2. Operable is about making the input methods of web content functionally available to a wide range of inputs and devices, including mouse or touchpad, keyboard, touchscreen, voice recognition software and other specialized input devices (most of which emulate the keyboard or mouse).

3. Understandable is about making content and interfaces that people can comprehend, such as setting the language, writing in clear language, adding supplementary alternatives, consistent and predicable layouts, error prevention and correction, clear instructions and helpful tips.

4. Robust is about ensuring compatibility with a broad range of user agents, including assistive technologies, browsers, devices and clear labelling e.g., do users know how to use interactive elements and what they are doing (ARIA)

Taurus are in the process of procuring a new website. POUR principles and W3C recommendations are fundamental in the procurement process.

Alternative formats

We've designed our content to be as accessible as possible.

If you need information on this website in a different format, like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or Braille, please contact us