We want everyone who visits our website to be able to access the full range of services available, regardless of their skill or technology.

This website was launched in November 2020

How accessible the site is

We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible:

What to do if you have problems or queries

If you have any accessibility problems or feedback, please email us as leisuretransformation@durham.gov.uk 

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the accessibility regulations. If you’re not happy with how we respond, please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

Durham leisure Transformation is committed to making our website accessible, in accordance with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Under the Equality Act 2010 we must ensure we do not unlawfully discriminate in our service delivery and make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities where necessary. We are constantly working to improve the accessibility and usability of our site.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

Information about which areas of the website fail.

• forms: some have blank labels or titles, which fails success criterion 4.1.2
• buttons: some have no value attribute or label, failing success criterion 4.1.2
• elements: some elements do not contain text or an img with an alt attribute, failing success criteria 2.4.4, 2.4.9 and 4.1.2
• zooming: viewport tag is being used to disable zoom, which fails criterion 1.4.4
• zooming: no relative units in CSS property values when zoom is disabled by meta viewport, which fails criterion 1.4.4
• stylesheets: absolute positioning fails success criterion 1.3.2
• outline / border style: the stylesheet makes it difficult to see the dotted link focus outline, failing success criterion 2.4.7
• stylesheets: some content is in stylesheet, making it unavailable to screen readers and users who are not using the stylesheet, failing success criterion 1.3.1
• images: some adjacent images have identical alt tags causing screen readers to stutter as the same text is read out twice, and failing success criterion 1.1.1
• images: some adjacent images have identical alt tags causing screen readers to stutter as the same text is read out twice, and failing success criterion 1.1.1