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Accessibility

This service is offered as part of the wider Brent council website. There’s a separate accessibility statement for the main Brent council website and associated web platforms and applications.

This page only contains information about Brent Youth Zone/pfa

Brent PfA has partnered with Texthelp to provide an enhanced experience for site visitors when they access our content.
 
We’ve added Browsealoud to our websites – an innovative support software that adds speech, reading, and translation to all of our websites facilitating access and participation for people with dyslexia, low literacy, English as a second language, and those with mild visual impairments.
 
Online content can be read aloud in multiple languages using the most natural and engaging voice to transform the user’s reading experience.

Browsealoud features:
 
Text-to-speech with choice of reading speeds and highlighters to enhance reading comprehension
Translate web pages into 99 languages; speak translated text aloud in 40 languages
On-screen text magnifier helps users with visual impairments
MP3 generator converts text to audio files for offline listening
Screen mask blocks on-screen clutter, letting readers focus on text being read
Web page simplifier removes ads and other distracting content for easier reading
Custom settings built in to suit individual user needs and preferences

Pre-recorded video

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Some videos on this website have subtitles included, on other videos, subtitles can be turn on in Youtube with the button beneath the video area (pictured above left).

 

Using this service

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 300% 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’re also making the website text as simple as possible to understand.

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

What to do if you can’t access parts of this website

If you have difficulty using this service, please get in touch by emailing us at: webteam@brent.gov.uk

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems that aren’t listed on this page or think we’re not meeting the requirements of the accessibility regulations, let us know by emailing webteam@brent.gov.uk

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing 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

London Borough of Brent Council  is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

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

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents don’t meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be marked up so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

We will create a register of PDFs and Word documents, which are essential for service delivery and we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages by September 2020.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. However, we plan to replace as many PDFs as possible with accessible HTML pages.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards unless we determine that they represent a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations.

 

PDF

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents don’t meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be marked up so they’re accessible to a screen reader. This does not meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role value).

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

We will create a register of PDFs and Word documents, which are essential for service delivery and we plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages by September 2020.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. However, we plan to replace as many PDFs as possible with accessible HTML pages.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards unless we determine that they represent a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations.

 

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We released new code to the website on 23 September 2019 to fix the issues we identified during testing.

This statement was prepared on 23 September 2019 and was last updated on 23 September 2019.

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