Accessibility Statement

Introduction

This statement applies to content published on the uk.eu-supply.com domain. This website is run by EU Supply. The public pages of the website are designed to be used by as many people as possible. As a website used by many public sector authorities to manage and advertise their tenders we are committed to ensuring that as many people as possible can access our website.


How accessible is the website.

Parts of this website which are publicly available may have some accessibility issues. For example:
  • Texts in some pages may have contrast issues
  • Document language may not be correctly detected by some applications like translator/screen readers etc
  • Some header elements are not consistent.
  • Some images do not have good alternative text.
  • Some texts in Italics may not be correctly read by screen readers
  • Some labels may have issues.

How to request content in an accessible format

If you need information in a different format contact us and tell us:
  • the web address (URL) of the content
  • your name and email address
  • the format you need, for example, audio CD, accessible PDF etc

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

If you find any problems that are not listed on this page or you think we’re not meeting the accessibility requirements, contact us.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

EU-Supply is fully committed in making public pages of this website fully 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.

Non-accessible content

The content that is not accessible in the public pages of this website are outlined below with details of where it fails the success criteria.

Success Criteria 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (A)
Some input type texts are missing labels

Success Criteria 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (AA)
Some of the texts may have contrast issues.

Success Criteria 1.4.4 Resize text (AA)
Some of the texts use the Italic “i” element. The i element is not handled as well by screen readers as the em and strong elements.

Success Criteria 2.4.6 Headings and Labels (AA)
Header nesting may have issues in some public pages.

Success Criteria 3.1.1 Language of Page (A)
Document language may not be identifiable in some public pages.

Success Criteria 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions (A)
Some of the Label texts may be empty in certain scenarios as the content of the website is dynamically generated.

Success Criteria 4.1.1 Parsing (A)
Some of the id values may not be unique in some cases in some of the pages.

How we tested this website

This website was and is currently being tested for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines both V2.0 and the new requirements in V2.1 level A and level AA, and these tests have been carried out internally.
We used 3rd party tools in carrying out accessibility tests as defined in WCAG guidelines.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We are continuously improving the accessibility of our website and we are fully committed to work towards achieving WCAG 2.1 compliance on the publicly available pages of this website.

- Ongoing public tender search page was improved in January 2022
- Work will continue during 2024