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Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to workingwales.gov.wales.

The Working Wales website is managed by Careers Wales. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • Zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
  • Listen to most of the website using a screen reader
  • Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • Change colours, contrast levels and fonts

To ensure this is possible we are engaging with external accessibility companies to ensure that the above minimum requirements are met.

We have also made the website text as easy as possible to understand.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible the website is

Some parts of the Working Wales website are not fully accessible. For example:

  • Older PDFs are not fully accessible to screen reader software. They may not have descriptive titles
  • Some of our older videos do not have captions, audio description or transcripts
  • Some buttons and links do not have sufficient colour contrast when hovered over or clicked

Careers Wales uses a third-party application called Livechat for online webchat services. Live chat is compliant with the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. Visit Livechat for more information.

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format, for example, an accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille please contact us by:

We will consider your request and get back to you within 2 working days.

If you cannot use live chat please phone us on 0800 028 4844 or email us at post@careerswales.gov.wales.

Visiting us in person

Careers Centres have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit, we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter. Our staff also work from a variety of outreach venues. The facilities of these venues will vary and may not include audio induction loops.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We want to continue to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that are not listed on this page, please contact:

Web Content Manager, email: information@careerswales.gov.wales

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. If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Careers Wales is committed to making its websites accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

The following list was compiled from an assessment carried out in 2020 of the Careers Wales website. The Working Wales website has been built the same way as the Careers Wales website and therefore any non-compliance would be expected to be the same across both sites.

Careers Wales plan to carry out a full site assessment in 2023. This list will be updated following the assessment.

Non accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Videos (Pre-recorded)

Not all videos requiring it, currently contain captions, audio description or transcription. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion. All new videos uploaded to our websites from 23 September 2020 should meet these requirements.

Video play buttons do not contain descriptive labelling. This fails WCAG 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.5, 3.3.2 and 4.1.2 success criterion. Videos are embedded using third party providers. Careers Wales has no control over descriptive labelling on video play buttons from third party sites and cannot take responsibility for the lack of descriptive labelling.

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs do not meet accessibility standards. For example, they may not be structured to be accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (Name, role value).

Some of our PDFs are essential to providing our services. We plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.

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.

If you need to access information in one of these document types, please contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Colour contrast

When hovering over words that have a grey background and blue or white wording, the colour contrast between the text and the background is not sufficient. This fails WCAG Level AA 1.4.3 Colour contrast success criterion.

In some cases, when hovering and clicking on a button or link the outline is not a strong enough contrast to the background colour. This fails WCAG Level AA 1.4.11 Non-text contrast.

We are working with developers to fix the colour contrast issues across the site.

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs do not meet accessibility standards. For example, they may not be structured to be accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (Name, role value).

Some of our PDFs are essential to providing our services. We plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.

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.

If you need to access information in one of these document types, please contact us and ask for an alternative format.

Videos (Pre-recorded)

Videos uploaded prior to 23 September 2020 may not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion. All new videos uploaded to our websites from 23 September 2020 should meet these requirements.

Video play buttons do not contain descriptive labelling. This fails WCAG 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.5, 3.3.2 and 4.1.2 success criterion. Videos are embedded using third party providers. Careers Wales has no control over descriptive labelling on video play buttons from third party sites and cannot take responsibility for the lack of descriptive labelling.

Live video

Live video streams are exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. We will review what is possible for each live stream based on the technology/software used.

What we are doing to improve accessibility

We are working with developers to achieve full compliance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standards.

We are building in new guidelines for PDFs and videos to ensure that future videos, PDFs and other documents will be fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1.

We are working with external accessibility companies to have a full site assessment and working with them on a consultative basis over future developments.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 10th February 2020. It was last reviewed on 4 October 2022.

Workingwales.gov.wales has not undergone specific accessibility tests. Careerswales.gov.wales which has the same functionality underwent accessibility testing in December 2020 / January 2021.  For this reason, we are aware of the areas in which workingwales.gov.wales is compliant and non-compliant.

The test on careerswales.gov.wales was carried out by Shaw Trust Accessibility Services. We tested our website platform at careerswales.gov.wales.

Careers Wales plan to carry out a full site assessment in 2023. This accessibility statement will be updated following the assessment.

We used this approach to deciding on a sample of pages to ask Shaw Trust Accessibility Services to test: