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The Practice & Education Council for Nursing & Midwifery strives to ensure that this website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, or if you come across a page or resource that does not meet your access needs, please contact the IT & Information Officer, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors.

Page titles are different on each unique page, and give a good indication about its content. This will help you keep track of where you are in the website, and make it possible to distinguish between pages when you have more than one window or tab open.

Headings are relevant and provided in a logical order so that you can use them to get an overview of the page. For screen reader users, this means that you may be able to use screen reader functions to jump from heading to heading, or have a list of all headings displayed, so that you can decide which one is of most interest to you, and then go straight to it.

Text sizes

All text is resizable, so if it is too small or large for easy reading, you can use your browser setting to display it at the size you prefer.

If you have already selected a non-standard text size in your browser settings, the size you prefer will be visible from the moment you enter the website, and you won't need to reset it for each page.

Links

The wording for text links will be carefully chosen so that each link is:

• Clear, giving you a good idea of what the destination page is about.

• Unique, each one is different, unless it leads to the same page as any others using the same wording.

• Complete, not relying on nearby text to explain its purpose or context.

• Concise, as short and to the point as possible.

• Easy to identify, not beginning with words like "click here for" or "link to".

Links that are constructed as described above, are useful for all visitors, especially those who have modern browsers or access technologies that enable them to extract a list of links from web pages, so that they are easier to sort and faster to select.

Images

A text alternative will be provided for all images, relevant to the reason for the image being there, and will be as short and to the point as possible. The information you get from the alternative text will depend on the reason for the image:

Images used as links will have alternatives that, like good text links, tell you about the destination page.

Informative images will have alternative text that contains the information that the image contributes to the page.

Images of text will use the visible text as their alternatives.

Decorative images will be given empty alternative text, so that they are silent when a screen reader reads the page.

Layout images will also be rendered "silent" by having empty alternative text.

By using these rules the website will be giving screen reader users a page reading experience that is as close as possible to that enjoyed by sighted visitors. It also makes sure that no information is lost if the image isn't large enough for you to read, or images have been turned off to speed up browsing on mobile connections.

Colour

Colours will be chosen to provide good contrast between text and its background, and avoid combinations that are known to cause difficulties for people with colour blindness.

In addition, colour styling will ensure that no parts of the page would be unreadable if you have chosen non-standard colours in your browser colour settings.

A change of colour won't be used as the only way to identify any information. So for instance you won't see phrases such as "streets liable to flooding are in red text". This is obviously because some people can't see the screen, but also because other people may be unable to tell the difference between colours, either because of colour blindness or because their screen doesn't process colours well enough.

n overview of all information that is contained within the NIPEC website. Within each of the 12 sections, users may link to specific areas, by using the appropriate links.