Accessibility Statement

How accessible this website is

Improving the accessibility of our website is a continuous development project within the Arts Council. We know there are some parts of this website which are not fully accessible:

• most older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• there are decorative images that make it difficult to navigate when using a screen reader.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliance(s) are listed below. 

How accessible this website is

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

• Unable to change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• No text to speech option
• Older pre-recorded videos do not have captions
• Pre-recorded videos do not have sign language alternatives
• Older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software.

Non-accessible content

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

1. Tables in some PDFs are not correctly tagged with row and column headers, so the relationships between data are lost for screen reader users. This fails WCAG Criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (Tables).
2. Accessible text is missing for the visually hidden links next to '[email protected]' and 'Equality Commission', so a screen reader cannot tell a user where these links go. This fails 2.4.4 Link Purpose / 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.
3. When the search icon is active and the search panel is expanded, focus can move behind it, completely hiding the breadcrumb links. This fails 2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)

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

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

The accessibility regulations do not require ACNI to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. From April 2023, any new PDFs or Word documents ACNI publishes will meet accessibility standards.

Third party content

Areas of this website may include links to third party content which we have no control over and may not meet accessibility standards.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to manage these kinds of content, but if you have a problem with any of the content hosted on this website, contact us and we’ll try and help.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 18th August 2026. It was last reviewed on 28th August 2026.

This website was last tested on 28th August 2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard. Testing was carried out by Eyekiller, using manual testing and automated tools such as Deque AXE and Google Lighthouse, covering a representative sample of pages.

If you would like to view the full accessibility report please email [email protected]

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, email [email protected]

If you need information on this website in a different format, please email [email protected] and we will make all reasonable arrangements we can. For example, we aim to provide information in an accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or Braille.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’) across Northern Ireland.

If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.