Accessibility

We provide this information to assist with using the National Centre for Atmospheric Science website, and to cover common questions. If your query isn’t covered here, if you have any suggestions or comments, or if you need further assistance, please contact us at comms@ncas.ac.uk.

This website is run by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

We’ve also made most of the website text as simple as possible to understand, and chosen not to provide any information in PDF documents unless it is also available in HTML format.

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

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

We will be carrying out a full accessibility audit in the next twelve months to identify further issues and work towards a more accessible platform.

Feedback and contact information

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 as soon as we can.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.

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:

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).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

Our offices are embedded in twelve universities and research institutes across the UK.

If you have any specific questions about visiting us in person and accessing our buildings, contact:

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science 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

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

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

We cannot provide a list of accessibility non-compliances and the success criteria they fail on. We are working towards a full accessibility audit by 1st October 2021 to resolve this. 

Our ambition is to provide a list of accessibility non-compliances and the success criteria they fail on.

Disproportionate burden

We are unable to state if our accessibility problems are a disproportionate burden to fix. 

We are working towards a full accessibility audit by 1st October 2021 to identify the burdens of fixing any accessibility problems.

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are provided as print friendly versions of website content, and are not fully accessible.

However, any content in these PDFs and Word documents is also provided as accessible HTML pages.

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

We are working towards a full accessibility audit by 1st October 2021. 

Our ambition is to provide a list of accessibility non-compliances and the success criteria they fail on, identify the burdens of fixing any accessibility problems, and set out a roadmap for improving accessibility on our website.

This statement was prepared on 6th October 2020. It was last reviewed on 6th October 2020.

This website was last tested on 1st October 2020. A basic accessibility test was carried out by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Selesti. We are working towards a full accessibility audit by 1st October 2021.

We chose a small sample of website pages that represented a variety of page structures and layouts, and tested colour contrast, link formatting, screen resolutions, language, keyboard navigation, headings and labels, and images.