Accessibility policy

Accessibility statement for www.gchq-careers.co.uk

This accessibility statement applies to www.gchq-careers.co.uk

This website is run by GCHQ. 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’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

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

How accessible this website is

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

the site cannot be correctly read or navigated by screen-readers
pages have insufficient colour contrast
images do not have alternative text
pages cannot be easily navigated using a keyboard
some pages cannot be used without a mouse
time-based media lack captions and transcripts
older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

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, please email careerswebsite@recruitmentteam.org.uk with ‘Accessibility’ as the email subject.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.

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, please email careerswebsite@recruitmentteam.org.uk with ‘Accessibility’ as the email subject.

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 (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

GCHQ 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 not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard. The non-compliances and exemptions are listed below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 1.1.1 Non-Text Content:

Some alt text contains placeholders
Some non-decorative imagery does not have alternative text present
Some decorative imagery contains inappropriate alternative attributes
Multimedia content is not identified with accessible text

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 1.3.1 Info and Relationships:

Semantic markup not used appropriately
Page regions not identified with ARIA landmarks
Related links not grouped used Nav element
“aria-labelledby” attribute references blank element
Table header not identified with ‘th’ element

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence:

Page ordering is incorrect

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 1.4.1 Use of Colour:

Links lack addition styling

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.10 Reflow:

Two-dimensional scrolling is present

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast:

Insufficient contrast between UI components and backgrounds

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.12 Text Spacing:

Rendering issues are present with applying custom CSS

The following do not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus:

Hovered content cannot be dismissed
Hovered content cannot be selected

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum):

Copy has insufficient contrast against background

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 1.4.4 Resize Text:

Rendering issues are present when increasing the font size

The following does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.1.1 Keyboard:

Unable to interact with all UI components using keyboard only

The following does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap:

Keyboard traps are present

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide:

Moving content is present without pause, stop, hide

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks:

‘Skip to Main Content’ CTA not present
iframes lack title attributes
Heading structure incorrect

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.4.2 Page Titled:

Duplicate page titles

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.4.3 Focus Order:

Tab order is not logical

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context):

Some links provide no further context in the descriptions
Some images are links but without accessible names

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 2.4.5 Multiple Ways:

There are not multiple ways to navigate some pages

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 2.4.6 Headings and Labels:

Empty headings are present

The following does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 2.4.7 Focus Visible:

There are no visible tab focus indicators

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 3.1.1 Language of Page:

Page language not defined

The following item does not comply with WCAG Level AA 2.1: 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation:

Navigation is not consistent across the site

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 4.1.1 Parsing:

Multiple instances of the same duplicate ID
Unclosed element
Elements not nested according to specifications

The following items do not comply with WCAG Level A 2.1: 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value:

Form controls lack labels
Markup has not been used to aid accessibility for assistive technologies
There are ‘aria-labelledby’ references to non-existent element IDs.

Disproportionate burden

We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the issues above and we believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations as a new website is currently under development.

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

PDFs and other documents

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. By July 2021, 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’re not essential to providing our services.

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

Pre-recorded video

We do not plan to add captions, audio description or transcripts to pre-recorded time-based media published before 23rd September 2020 as they are exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

Any new pre-recorded time-based media we publish will meet accessibility standards.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

A completely new website is currently under construction which will meet accessibility standards. We aim to have this site live by July 2021.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on Tuesday 2nd March 2021. It was last reviewed on Tuesday 2nd March 2021.

This website was last tested on 30 September 2020. The test was carried out by Zoonou Ltd.