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Our commitment and approach to maintaining an accessible website

NSAI is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines. 

This website’s conformance with official accessibility guidelines

This website is built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS and conforms with WCAG 2.1 Level AA, as specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. 

Areas for improvement and time-lines

As we carry out regular testing and accessibility auditing in order to ensure ongoing accessibility compliance on our website, we may become aware of certain areas/modules/templates on the website where we could improve in terms of accessibility. We strive to maintain a Level AA conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. 

Please find below the latest areas that we are currently working to improve: 

Areas for improvement Timelines for improvement
Parsing: the remaining minor errors are not possible to fix. Not applicable - cannot be fixed
Input error messages are present but could be more descriptive for the user.  Not applicable - cannot be fixed. 

 

How to send feedback on this website's accessibility

We are continuously seeking solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime, should you experience any difficulty in accessing the NSAI website, please don’t hesitate to contact us: 

  • Phone: +353 1 807 3800 

  • E-mail: [email protected] 

  • Address: National Standards Authority of Ireland 1 Swift Square, Northwood, Santry, Dublin 9, Ireland D09 A0E4 

We will try to respond to your valuable feedback within 5 business days.  

A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd. on the NSAI website and with a combination of automated, semi-automated, and manual accessibility audits.