The Settlement Services International website has been designed to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
The SSI website was certified in March 2024 as meeting WCAG2.1 AA standards.
These standards are followed to make the contents of this website accessible to people of all abilities.
SSI’s objective is for this site to be understandable regardless of any disability or impediment, providing as far as possible the same experience for all.
Content should be obtainable and functional in current-generation browsers and assistive technologies.
To assist some users in navigating the site, each page contains the following:
- a skip to content link, to move directly to the beginning of the page content, and
- a skip to navigation link, to move to the page navigation links, to the site index, site map, staff directory, news, events and contacts.
Using a modern browser that supports web standards ensures that the site’s full visual experience is available. Consider upgrading your browser if you are using an older technology.
Recite Me Assistive Technology
To provide additional support to aid a more inclusive user experience we provide the Recite Me assistive technology tool. This toolbar enables all website visitors to customise their experience through a range of options to suit their online accessibility and language needs.
The Recite Me toolbar provides text-to-speech functionality, fully customisable styling features, reading aids and a translation tool with over 100 languages, including 65 text-to-speech voices and many other features. This means that when the toolbar is activated by the user they can:
- Listen to the website using text-to-speech functionality
- Customise background, text and accessibility tool colours
- Modify the font, line height or spacing of text
- Zoom in up to 200% without spilling off the screen
- The text will reflow in a single column when you change the size of your browser window
- Navigate the website using just a keyboard
- Translate the website into a different language
- Download mp3 files of web page text
- View website pages in text-only mode
If you encounter any problems accessing any part of this site, contact the SSI Corporate Communications team.
The site has been certified by the accessibility consultancy Me2 Accessibility. The Me2 Accessibility audit was conducted in line with the W3C Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0.
On 27th March 2024, the SSI website satisfied all Level A and AA Success Criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 specification.
We are dedicated to the ongoing enhancement of the accessibility of this website. We are striving to enhance the accessibility of all pages and materials on our website, however it’s possible that some content has not yet been fully aligned with accessibility standards. This could be attributed to the fact that we may not have identified the most suitable fix to improve a user’s experience.
This statement is reviewed at least once a year and updated.