Accessibility statement for jobs.barnet.gov.uk

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Accessibility statement overview

The accessibility statement covers the jobs.barnet.gov.uk website

We've made every effort to make the site as accessible and easy to use for everyone by supporting the latest versions of browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.

We're constantly working towards improving the accessibility of our website to ensure we provide equal access to all our users, by including accessibility as part of our digital strategy.

Accessibility features of our site include:

  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  • support use of speech recognition software wherever possible
  • support use of screen reader technology wherever possible (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA)
  • use the site in plain text format (without styling)
  • maintaining colour/contrast ratios for text
  • keyboard accessible navigation
  • Compliance status

This site is non-compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

Reporting accessibility problems with this site

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 in particular areas, please email webmaster@barnet.gov.uk

It would be helpful if your email contained the following:

  • how you are accessing the site, for example on your phone, on a laptop, on a tablet
  • which browser you are using, for example Firefox, Edge, Chrome or Safari and include the version number
  • the nature of your disability, if any
  • a description of the problem

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)

Non-accessible content

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

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


Not all required form fields have an asterisk

All the form fields on the 'Sign up for job alerts' form are required but only the checkboxes have an asterisk against them

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.3.1 Info and relationships

We are working with our third party Hire Road to fix this by the end of 2023

Incorrect autocomplete attribute used on multiple pages

There are three instances of the autocomplete attribute being used incorrectly. For example there is a text field with the autocomplete attribute 'email-address' whereas the valid value should be 'email'.

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.3.5 Identify input purpose

We are working with our third party Hire Road to fix this by the end of 2023.

Image of text on the ‘What our staff are saying' carousel

There are images of text on each slide in the 'What our staff are saying' carousel.

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 1.4.5 Images of text

We are working with our third party Hire Road to fix this by the end of 2023

links without discernible text

There is an image link above the text 'Current Vacancies' and 'What we offer'.

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 4.1.2 Name, role, value

We are working with our third party Hire Road to fix this by the end of 2023

Result counter updating not announced to screen reader users

After entering a keyword into the 'Search by post title' field the results update and the result counter updates to reflect the new changes. The change to the result counter is not announced to screen reader users.

This does not comply with WCAG 2.1 criteria 4.1.3 Status messages

We are working with our third party Hire Road to fix this by the end of 2023

How we tested this website

We use an automated accessibility checker, Silktide. This tool is used to check the accessibility of our website.

What we're doing to improve accessibility

We are working to constantly improve the accessibility of this website.

This statement was prepared on 30 March 2023
It was last updated on 24 July 2023