Web accessibility compliance statement

The FDA is committed to testing and delivering all web content on website to WCAG 2.1, level A and AA compliance. We achieve this by testing our web pages and content against the WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA checkpoints and make changes to ensure we meet the success criteria.

The checkpoints we test against are taken from the technical standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG), published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We test using this standard to ensure that we’re meeting their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 and the EU Web Accessibility Directive.

Compliance standards (what we test against)

We try our best to ensure we test with a wide range of technologies, but we can’t commit to testing every browser version with every version of assistive technology, nor testing on every operating system version or mobile handset type. We focus on testing with more recent technology, as this enables more security and provides improved accessibility features and accessibility support for users.

Third party functionality and services

In some places on our website, we depend on third parties to deliver functionality and services. Wherever possible we work with third parties to ensure that the service they provide achieves conformance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

We cannot guarantee that all our third-party applications and services will always remain accessible and usable due to various updates made by third party suppliers.

If you discover any of our web services are not usable please email info@fda.org.uk.

External links

The FDA is not responsible for the content of external websites, nor any accessibility issues that may be present on those websites.

PDF documents

PDF documents may present accessibility challenges to users of assistive technology. Where possible we provide an alternative format alongside with any PDF documents distributed.

Legacy support

While we try to ensure support for older browsers, it is not always possible or feasible to continue this support.
We urge those on legacy systems to upgrade, as this will provide the most optimised and secure browsing experience.

Improvements

We are committed to the continual improvement of the accessibility of our website. We achieve this by doing the following:

Reporting a web accessibility issue

If you experience any accessibility issues while using our website, please let us know by emailing info@fda.org.uk.