Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to the Healthy Working Wales website: Healthy Working Wales. Healthy Working Wales is an ancillary state of Public Health Wales.

This website is run by Healthy Working Wales and Public Health Wales. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

  • zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver).

We have also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Accessibility on this website is guided by government standards and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG are widely accepted as the international standard for accessibility on the web.

Whilst we aim to make this website accessible to all users and achieve a WCAG conformance level ‘AA’; we continually work with stakeholders to ensure that conformance level ‘A’ is adhered to as a minimum.

If you experience any accessibility issue on this site or have any comment, please contact us.

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

  • parts of some pages may not work well with Assistive Technologies such as screen readers
  • some forms have error messages or labels that are not clear
  • some images do not have good alternative text
  • many documents are in PDF format and are not accessible

Feedback and contact information

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact us in the first instance and we will pass your request onto the relevant team. We will consider your request and get back to you in 10 working days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we are not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us.

Enforcement procedure

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’). If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Healthy Working Wales and Public Health Wales is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.  

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Whilst we endeavour to meet ‘WCAG 2.2 AA’ we currently have the following non-compliance issues:

 Some elements have an illogical focus order. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.3 Focus Order Level A.

Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

New documents we publish on this website should be fully accessible.

However, we know that some of our older documents are not accessible.

For example, some of them:

  • are not marked up in a way that allows screen reader users to understand them
  • are not tagged up properly, for example they do not contain proper headings
  • are not written in plain English

Some of these are historic documents and are not essential to providing our services. These types of documents are exempt from the regulations. We do not currently have any plans to make them accessible.

If you are struggling to access information in one of these document types, you can contact us to request an alternative format.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live audio or video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations. However, we will always aim to provide subtitled versions of pre-recorded videos produced.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in March 2025. It will be reviewed in March 2026.

This website was last tested in March 2025. The test was carried out by the Digital Accessibility Centre.