Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement covers the website for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust at www.kmpt.nhs.uk.

This website is run by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT). 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
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
• understand as much of the text as possible.

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

Changing your browser settings

If you do have any difficulty viewing the site, there are some things you can do to make it easier. These include changing the settings of your browser to better suit your needs.

Text sizing

If you are having difficulty reading the text on this page and would like to increase its size simply do the following:

Internet Explorer:

• Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
• Select "Text Size" from the menu
• In the sub-menu that appears, select which text size you want to use, smallest, smaller, medium, larger, or largest (medium is the default)
• Alternatively, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this site.

Firefox:

• Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
• Select "Text Size" from the menu
• Select "Increase" or "Decrease" to alter the size of the text
• Alternatively, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this site.

Safari:

• Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
• Select "Zoom in" or "Zoom Out" to alter the size of the text
• Alternatively, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this site.

Opera:

• Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
• Then select text size you want to use (as a percentage of the original)
• Alternatively, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this site.

Chrome:

• Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
• Select "Zoom in" or "Zoom Out" to alter the size of the text
• Alternatively, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this site.

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

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

• Email communications@nhs.net
• Call 01622 724 108

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: kmpt.communications@nhs.net 

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

We are committed to making our website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

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

Skip links (also known as chapter headings)

Our pages do not currently have skip links, this is because we do not have the ability to do so are part of our content management system. This is currently being reviewed and we aim to fix it by 1 December 2020.

PDFs and other documents

Many of our older PDFs and Word documents do not meet accessibility standards - for example, they may not be structured 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 are working to change these or replace them with accessible HTML pages. We have achieved this with most of our documents and aim to have the rest transferred by 1 November 2020. 

The accessibility regulations do not require us to amend PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Resize text

Text can't be resized easily without loss of content. This will be fixed by 1 December 2020. 

Contrast

Some of the contrast between the text a background doesn't meet the WCAG 2.1 standards. This will be fixed by 1 December 2020.

How we tested this website

This website was last tested on 31 January 2020. The test was carried out by us.

We tested a sample batch of pages which include the below:

• Our main website platform, available at kmpt.nhs.uk
• PDF’s and other documents, available at [https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/annual-reports/], [https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/other-publications/] and [https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/about-us/publications/expenditure-over-threshold/
• Services based on a different technical platform but ‘skinned’ to look like our website https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/about-us/careers/our-vacancies/