We want everyone to be able to use our website with confidence.
Our website has been designed and built by Prodo Digital on Umbraco version 13.10.0 to be accessible, inclusive and easy to use for people of all ages and abilities.
Tools to support your experience
To make our content easier to access, we use ReachDeck, a digital inclusion tool.
ReachDeck helps you read, listen to or translate information on our site.
You can turn ReachDeck on at any time by selecting the orange circular icon with a person symbol that appears on the bottom right-hand edge of every page.
It looks like this:
Once activated, ReachDeck provides:
- Text‑to‑speech (listen to page content)
- Reading support tools, including screen masking and highlighting
- Page translation into multiple languages
- Text magnification and simplification
- A reading ruler and focus tools.
These features support people who may have:
- Dyslexia
- Learning differences
- Mild visual impairments
- English as a second language
- Or anyone who prefers audio or assisted reading tools.
No installation is required — it works directly in your browser on desktop, tablet and mobile.
Our website is built to work well with widely used tools and devices, including:
- On‑screen magnifiers and zoom tools
- Screen readers and text‑to‑speech software
- Language translation tools
- Tablets and smartphones
- Other assistive technologies.
We're committed to meeting recognised international accessibility standards.
The website has been developed in line with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) coding standards and aims to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
WCAG is based on four key principles that ensure content is:
- Perceivable
- Operable
- Understandable
- Robust.
WCAG includes three levels of conformance: A, AA and AAA.
The emh Group website aims to WCAG 2.2 AA, the recommended, fully compliant standard for public‑facing services.
We're committed to maintaining and improving accessibility across our site.
If you experience a barrier or have feedback on how we can improve, please let us know. Your comments help us make the website better for everyone.