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Accessibility statement for rivershannongroup.ie

This accessibility statement applies to rivershannongroup.ie

This website is run by The Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  1. Change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
  2. Zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
  3. Navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software
  4. Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
  5. We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
  6. 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:

  1. There’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘Flood Relief Schemes’ page. 500% is the maximum zoom possible.
  2. ‘In Progress’ & ‘Completed’ indicators on our ‘Flood Relief Schemes’ page rely on a colour legend. Please use alt tags provided or the ‘view more info’ link as an alternative.
  3. You cannot modify the line height or spacing of text.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: info@dmacmedia.ie and provide the page URL and the issue you are experiencing.

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

Email The Office of Public Works: info@opw.ie

or

Call The Office of Public Works: 0469422000

We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible. 

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 are not happy about our response to your complaint, you can ask the Ombudsman to look into your complaint. Here is the contact information for and guidance on making a complaint from the Office of the Ombudsman.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group 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) [2.1 or 2.2] AA standard.

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

  • Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. 
  • Our ‘Flood Relief Schemes’ page uses an interactive google map. This may be difficult for motor impaired users to navigate.
  • This website uses YouTube to host videos. You Tube videos are embedded in this website using iframes. Some of the components of these iframes have the following know accessibility issues:
  1. components do not have sufficient colour contrast,
  2. the related videos inner slider is missing name
  3. some content on hover is disappearing
  4. hidden content is readable with a screen reader and on logo hover the content is not dismissable
  5. Since these are third-party elements originating from YouTube, we currently have no ability to rectify these issues with the iframes code used to embed videos. Our staff continue to seek a solution for these issues.
  • Some PDFs do not display a relevant title in the title bar.
  • Some PDF structures do not follow a logical reading order

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We have worked hard to ensure that this website is partially compliant with AA WCAG 2.1 and achieved this in April 2024. Our ambition is to continually review and improve the accessibility standards of this website.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 04/04/2024. It was last reviewed on that same date.

The test was carried out by Dmac Media Ltd.. All pages were tested using automated testing tools by our website team. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

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