Accessibility Statement
At Skillnet Ireland, we are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.
Our website is currently partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA, following the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, due to non-accessible content listed below.
This Skillnet Ireland website was built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards-compliant HTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.
As we carry out regular testing and accessibility auditing to ensure ongoing accessibility compliance on our website, we may become aware of certain areas/modules/templates on the website where we could improve in terms of accessibility. We strive to maintain a Level AA conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
Please find below the non-accessible areas:
Areas for Improvement: Identify Input Purpose: consider adding an autocomplete attribute for the email input field.
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party script - mailchimp signup form.
Areas for Improvement: Headings and Labels: For iframes that have meaningful content, provide a title using the title attribute.
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party script - https://www.skillnetireland.ie/careers
Areas for Improvement: Status Messages: form - improve programmatically determined status messages by adding role="alert"
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party script - mailchimp signup form.
Areas for Improvement: Name, Role, Value - Ensures every form element has a label
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party element - https://hub.skillnetireland.ie/new
Areas for Improvement: Identify Input Purpose - Ensure the autocomplete attribute is correct and suitable for the form field
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party element - https://hub.skillnetireland.ie/new
Areas for Improvement: Ensures the contrast between foreground and background colors meets WCAG 2 AA minimum contrast ratio thresholds
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party element - https://www.skillnetireland.ie/careers, https://www.skillnetireland.ie/contact, https://hub.skillnetireland.ie/, https://sonrai.skillnetireland.ie/
Areas for Improvement: Ensures and iframe elements with focusable content do not have tabindex=-1
Timelines for Improvement: To be defined.
Areas for Improvement: Ensure links are distinguished from surrounding text in a way that does not rely on color
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party element - https://hub.skillnetireland.ie/forgotpassword/, https://sonraitraining.skillnetireland.ie/forgotpassword/
Areas for Improvement: Ensures interactive controls are not nested as they are not always announced by screen readers or can cause focus problems for assistive technologies
Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party element - https://hub.skillnetireland.ie, https://sonraitraining.skillnetireland.ie
Areas for Improvement: Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded): The homepage video will need an alternative, either in text or audio format.
Timelines for Improvement: To be defined.
Areas for Improvement: Captions (Prerecorded): The homepage video transcripts are not accurate.
Timelines for Improvement: To be defined.
Areas for Improvement: Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded): No alternative for time-based media of the prerecorded video content is provided.
Timelines for Improvement: To be defined.
Areas for Improvement: Audio Description (Prerecorded): no audio description is provided for the video content.
Timelines for Improvement: To be defined.
We are continuously seeking solutions that will bring all areas of our website up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime, should you experience any difficulty in accessing the Skillnet Ireland website, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
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Phone: +353 (01) 207 9630
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E-mail: info@skillnetireland.ie
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Address: 5th floor, Q house, Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18. D18 E268
A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd. on the Skillnet Ireland website with a combination of automated, semi-automated, and manual accessibility audits.
PDF Documents
Some pages on this website by necessity contain Adobe PDF content. To view these documents you will need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you cannot access the information in any PDF document, please contact communications@skillnetireland.ie for assistance.
Where content is not easily accessible, please contact our communications team, who will be pleased to help with your enquiry.
Enforcement Procedure
If you are dissatisfied about how we respond to your request or complaint, you can complain to the Office of the Ombudsman under the terms of the Disability Act 2005.
Office of the Ombudsman,
6 Earlsfort Terrace,
Dublin 2,
D02 W773