Accessibility

Accessibility statement

We at HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) are committed to making our website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. This website is currently partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below at section 4.

We want our website (www.HMICS.scot) to be accessible and usable for as many people as possible. HMICS commits to an annual review of WLAG Standards to ensure compliance is maintained.

  1. Feedback

If you need information on this website in a different format, or if you find any accessibility problems you want to highlight, please contact us at:

  • E Mail: HMIC@gov.scot
  • Tel: 0131 244 5614
  • Post: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, St Andrews House, Regent Road, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG

  1. Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission enforces the accessibility regulations (the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018).  If you are not happy with the way in which we respond to your feedback, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service which is an independent advice service and can advise you on what to do next.

  1. Compliance Statement

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) commits to making its website accessible in line with the accessibility regulations. This statement, prepared on  29 April 2021 and  reviewed on 25  May 2021, applies to HMICS.scot.  

This website is partially not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 (WCAG) A and AA success criteria.

This website was reviewed in December 2020 and will be subject to further review during the financial year 2021/22.  When completed, we will publish an improvement plan of the improvements we will be making to our site and when this work will be completed.

  1. Non-accessible content

Not compliant with the accessibility regulations

We know some parts of this website are not compliant with the accessibility regulations:

  • PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.
  • Images contained within publications do not include alternative text. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).. This will be fixed in line with the timescales published in our Improvement plan.

Not within the scope of regulations

The accessibility regulations do not require us to update PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they are not essential to providing our services.  Any new documents we publish following the publication of our Improvement plan will meet accessibility standards.