Accessibility statement for Moorfieldsbrc.nihr.ac.uk

This accessibility statement applies to https://moorfieldsbrc.nihr.ac.uk/

This website is hosted by NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Moorfields. We aim for as many people as possible to have access to the information on this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
• zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve 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.

How accessible this website is

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

• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact us on the email address below. We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 30 days.

If you do not receive a response, please contact the NIHR Service Desk at 0207 333 5060 (internal or external) or visit support.nihr.ac.uk/sp (internal, for NIHR staff only) for assistance.

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

• email: moorfieldsbrc@nihr.ac.uk 
• Postal address: NIHR BRC: Moorfields
  2/12 Wolfson Building
  UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
  11-43 Bath Street
  London
  EC1V 9EL

We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 30 days.

If you cannot view the map on our ‘contact us’ page, email us for directions.

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

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Moorfields 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

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to non-accessible PDF content below.

Non-accessible content

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

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Some PDFs and downloadable Word documents do not have headings and proper structure for screen readers; this is being reviewed and aims for fixes to be applied by March 2027.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards. We do have some on the site without the correct heading structure. These will be reviewed and fixed by March 2027.

We have not created audio descriptions for all of our own videos; we are aiming to rectify this for future content from the date of this review.

Third party content

The following non-accessible section(s)/content/function(s) is/are out of scope of the applicable legislation: Some of the embedded content (e.g. YouTube and Vimeo content) that we link to for additional information is outside our control and may not be fully accessible. If you require this information in a different format, please do contact us via our details below and we’ll action your request.

We have tried to ensure that all video content is either subtitled or has a transcript below.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We plan to improve additional accessibility on this website. By reviewing the audio description of video and the PDFs and documentation attached to the site by March 2027.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 23 July 2026. It was last reviewed on 23 July 2026

This website was last tested on 23 July 2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

The test was carried out by NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Moorfields.

The most viewed pages were tested using automated testing tools.

Accessibility was specifically tested with WAVE by our website team.

The site was tested for navigation and usability using MacOS screen reader.

The site was tested for ease of keyboard navigation using the Google Chrome browser.