Accessibility

This is the official Accessibility Statement for the investsefton website:-

www.investsefton.com

If you have experienced a problem accessing or reading our material, please let us know and we will try to provide the information in a format that is useful to you. We would also welcome your feedback and ideas regarding the accessibility of our site.

This website is run by InvestSefton. 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 200% 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
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

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

My Computer My Way has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability and the AT Hive can help you find assistive technologies that work for you.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible. You can see a full list of any issues we currently know about in the Non-accessible content section of this statement.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: investsefton@sefton.gov.uk or call 0151 934 3452

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 7 days.

Read tips on contacting organisation about inaccessible websites.

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).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

InvestSefton 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

  • Some images across the website do not have alternative text descriptions when they should. This fails WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content (A).
  • The promotional video on the home page does not offer other media alternatives such as transcript. This fails WCAG 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) (A).
  • Not all list content across the website uses programmatic lists correctly. This fails WCAG 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (A).
  • Links in the footer differentiate by colour alone. This fails WCAG 1.4.1 Use of Color (A).
  • There are a variety of text contrast issues across the website. This fails WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (AA).
  • there are a small number of focus indication contrast issues on the website. This fails WCAG 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast (AA).
  • Pages do not respond to user-triggered text spacing adjustments. This fails WCAG 1.4.12 Text Spacing (AA).
  • Some navigation links can only be made visible on mouse-hover. This fails WCAG 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (AA).
  • Some content such as some navigation links, cookie controls and some content on the home page cannot be accessed with keyboard. This fails WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard (A).
  • The burger menu content is presented before the burger menu button so users must tab backwards to access revealed content. This fails WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order (A).
  • Some hidden links and image links do not have accessible text names. This fails WCAG 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) (A).
  • There are a number of focus indication issues across navigation and content including forms on the website. This fails WCAG 2.4.7 Focus Visible (AA).
  • Some content such as burger menus and cookie popups visually obscure focus indication of other elements. This fails WCAG 2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) (AA).
  • There are a variety of aria and element issues with navigation, interactive maps, and other content on the website such as elements not having accessible text names, not announcing state, or not having correct labels or aria attributes. This fails WCAG 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (A).

If you find an issue that we have yet to identify, please contact us using one of the routes described in the ‘Feedback and contact information’ section of this statement.

Disproportionate burden

At this time, we have made no claims of disproportionate burden.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in September 2025.

This website was last tested on 28/07/2025 against the WCAG 2.2 standard. The test was carried out by All Able Ltd.

All pages on the website were tested. Testing was composed of a mixture of manual, semi-automated and assistive technology testing.

Standards Compliance

All pages on this site are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines approved and comply with all priority 1, 2 and in most cases 3 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Many accessibility features can be measured, whilst some cannot and require human judgement. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that we have achieved compliance.

Adobe Acrobat

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the PDF documents viewable on this web site. You can download Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe website.

Adobe also provides useful tools and resources on the accessibility section of the Adobe web site, if you wish to access PDF documents using a screen reader.

Adjusting the Text size

The text size used throughout the site is easily increased or decreased using your browser. A couple of examples of how to do this are listed below:

Changing your text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  1. Select ‘Text Size’ from the ‘View’ menu.
  2. elect from the list of predefined text sizes raning from ‘Largest’ to ‘Smallest’

Changing your text size in Netscape/Mozilla:

  1. Select ‘Text Size’ from the ‘View’ menu.
  2. Select ‘Increase Font’ or ‘Decrease Font’ to adjust the font size accordingly.

Alternatively you can adjust your text size in many browsers by holiding down the ‘Ctrl’ key (PC) and using your mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease your text size.

Tabbing

All pages have a tab index so that pressing the tab key will sequentially go through the links on the web page from top to bottom.

Technical Specification

This website has been designed to conform to W3C web standards and uses valid eXtensible Hypertext Mark-up Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).