Accessibility Statement

This statement applies to content published on the www.ecitb.org.uk domain.

This website is run by the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board. The ECITB is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. This website is built in WordPress using the Avada theme, which is 100% WCAG 2.0 compliant.

We aim for our website to be accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these, and is extremely important in making your web content more usable.

You should be able to:

  • use most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • zoom in up to 300% without problems
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • watch all video content with closed caption subtitles
  • find good alternative text for all images used.

How accessible is this website?

Parts of this website are not fully accessible. For example:

  • some pages and document attachments are not clearly written
  • some pages have poor colour contrast
  • some heading elements are not consistent
  • some buttons are not correctly identified
  • some error messages are not clearly associated with form controls
  • many documents are in PDF format and are not accessible

We have identified where there are issues of non-compliance on the website and will work to make these areas more accessible.

How to request content in an accessible format:

We periodically review web standards guidelines and improvements in the functionality offered by browsers to improve the accessibility of our website.

If you have difficulty in accessing the content of this site, please contact us and we will provide the information in an alternative format you need, for example, audio CD, braille, BSL or large print, accessible PDF.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website:

If you find any problems that are not listed on this page or you think we’re not meeting the accessibility requirements, contact us.

Alternatively, if you contact us with a complaint and you’re not happy with our response contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

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’).

Further help

We recommend the use of modern browsers to view www.ecitb.org.uk. The following organisations provide useful guidance on how you can optimise viewing of web content:

You can also refer to your browser software or device supplier for help.