NSPCC Learning

Website design & development.

The NSPCC Learning website provides comprehensive safeguarding resources for professionals working with children, including online courses, face-to-face training, practice guidance, research briefings, safeguarding audit tools, and sector-specific information for education, health, social care, sports, and voluntary organisations. It offers practical advice on implementing child protection legislation and establishing effective safeguarding procedures, helping teachers, social workers, healthcare providers, sports coaches, and youth workers develop the knowledge and skills needed to protect children from harm and respond appropriately to concerns.

IA, UX and workshops
Concepts & Design
Responsive framework
Web design
Web architecture
Web development and build
Content management system
Project management
Analysis and reporting

Project details

Challenge

NSPCC Learning have already obtained the basic level accessibility requirement by implementing a screen reader tool with their website.

But having run a recent audit, they would now like to improve their accessibility stance further.

By resolving a number of accessibility issues raised by the report, to make content on the site more accessible to a larger audience. Particularly those who use the popular screen reader tools such as NDVA.

Solution

Having reviewed the accessibility audit report, Igentics implemented a number of enhancements to the source HTML of the website to:

Ease navigation of the website via a keyboard
Help screen readers to identify sections of the website for improved navigation
Obfuscated redundant information within the source of the page to prevent accessible tools from announcing/indexing unhelpful information
Update the colour of backgrounds & fonts to improve legibility of copy for visibly impaired users

Result

The improvements to the naked eye are very minor. But the goal of these enhancements is to make the content more accessible to a wider audience.

Having carried out these improvements. The website is now more accessibility compliant. SEO rankings have been improved with header markup improvements.

Both Igentics and NSPCC have a improved understanding of how users with disabilities are impacted. And thus will continue to keep accessibility in mind when discussing user flows for future improvements.