This accessibility statement applies to the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People’s (NICCY) website www.niccy.org.
This website is run by NICCY. 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 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:
If require any of this information, please contact us using the details below to ask for alternative formats or alternative ways of obtaining the information.
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 communications@niccy.org or telephone 028 9031 1616. We will consider your request and get back to you in 20 days. If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, call or email us for directions.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We are 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 Communications Team – email: communications@niccy.org or telephone 028 9031 1616.
We, NICCY are responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’).
If you are not happy with how a public authority responds to your complaint about the accessibility of its website, please contact the Equality Commissioner for Northern Ireland for further advice, email: ComplaintsOfficers@equalityni.org or telephone 028 90 500 600.
NICCY 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 fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
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.
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 in September 2020. It was last reviewed in September 2020.
This website was last tested on September 2020 with an audit being carried out by Contra Agency.
This audit approach sampled a number of pages to test which included some of the most visited web pages, online forms and pages with differing types of content.
You can read the full accessibility audit report by requesting a copy from communications@niccy.org.
Our website support company Contra implemented accessibility fixes based on this report.
This statement will be reviewed and updated and an ongoing basis.