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Accessibility Statement for Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Board (BFSB)

What is website accessibility?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the organisation responsible for developing web standards. The W3C states that: "Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them."

For a full definition, and to see what accessibility means for all website users, please see the W3C website.

Background

This accessibility statement applies to: Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Board website

This website is run by Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Board. While we try to make new content accessible to all users, we can't guarantee that every part of each site page will meet everyone's accessibility needs. We want as many people as possible to be able to use our website.

That means you should be able to:

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard or 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.

Our website also features in-built tools to enable users to alter the way content is viewed using standard templates, e.g. the ability to alter text size.

Standard web browsing software offers options to allow users to alter the way they view content, and we do not deliberately override these options. Our websites explain how to use these tools.

Changing Browser Settings

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

AbilityNet - My Computer My Way offer 'how to' guides to make your device easier to use.

The guides offer step by step instructions on how to adapt your phone, computer or tablet to meet your needs. You can search for a specific need (e.g. making text larger) or filter the guides based on your symptoms (e.g. hand tremor) or condition (e.g. dyslexia).

Learn how to change browser settings to improve accessibility.

How accessible is our website

We know that some parts of the website materials are not fully accessible:

  • most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
  • live video streams do not have captions

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, email the board: bfsb@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

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

email us: bfsb@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

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

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

Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Board 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard.

Non-accessible content

WCAG 1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus

We plan to fix this in our next update due out in December 2025.

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

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. For example, we do not plan to fix older non-essential pdfs or Word documents that are not fully accessible.

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

Live video

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

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 27/10/2025.

It was last reviewed on 03/11/2025. This website was last tested on 27/10/2025. The test was carried out using Siteimprove, WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool and WebAim Contrast Checker. This test involved a combination of automated and manual testing.

We also do manual checks using the Government Digital Service checklist.

We tested the Home page, About Us page and Contact Us page.