Accessibility

Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

European Parliament Constituency Website.

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is the Government Department responsible for housing and water, for physical and spatial planning, for local government, for weather forecasting and for built and natural heritage.

The Department is committed to ensuring access for all. This accessibility statement explains how the Department, as the Service Provider, will endeavour to meet the requirements as set out in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.1 at AA Level as defined by the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Our commitment and approach to maintaining an accessible website

The Department is committed to:

How we test for conformance with official accessibility guidelines

The Department uses a range of techniques to help providing access for all. They include:
Accessibility Testing
Approach Reasoning
Automated Scanning Automated scanning provides a quick (but not complete) overview of issues that persons may encounter
Guidance Provision of guidance to content editors such as using Alternate Text
Manual Review Regularly performing manual review of each site and adjusting the site to help improve accessibility

This website's conformance with official accessibility guidelines

The website currently has a partial conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. Our most recent web accessibility audit for this website was on 23/06/2021.

Areas for improvement and time-lines

We are aware of some areas on the website where we could improve accessibility. We are currently working to achieve this. We hope that this website will achieve "Level AA" conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 by December 2021.

Areas for improvement, time-lines for improvement, and alternatives
Section of website Need for improvement Time-line for improvement Alternative access
All Pages Improving contrast Some areas of the website may show issues with contrast If you have problems using certain sections of this site, call us on 01 888 2339

How to send feedback on this website's accessibility

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website.
				European Parliament Constituency Committee,
				Room 1.65,
				Custom House,
				Dublin 1,
				D01 W6X0

Accessibility features of this website

A large number of techniques are used to enable the site become accessible for all. The process is ongoing as content changes and the structure of the site changes. Some of the accessible features on this site include (but not limited to) the following:
Accessibility Features
Feature Purpose
Alt Text All Images where appropriate have suitable Alt text to provide a descriptive element to the image portrayed
Heading Outline Hierarchy Logical sense applied to headings where possible H1, H2, H3
Descriptive Links Links and Buttons have descriptive elements or Aria labels where those elements are cannot be provided
Contrast Reasonable minimums in difference with relation to contrast between foreground elements and background elements
Navigability Logical structure applied to the website to ensure the site can be used without a mouse
ARIA Landmarks A large variety of aria- landmarks applied to aid in accessibility
This list is not exhaustive.