Accessibility statement

This accessibility statement applies to the website of East Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association: eastmidlandsrfca.co.uk

This website is run by our in-house communications team. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website and are committed to improving accessibility. For example, via the accessibility tool in the bottom of your screen, that means you should be able to:

• increase the size of the text
• increase the size of the gap between lines of text
• align text to the left or right
• change the font
• switch the site to grayscale and adjust the contrast
• see the structure of each page
• use a reading mask or outline focus tool
• hide images and highlight hyperlinks

• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Feedback and contact information

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

• email us at em-enquiries@rfca.mod.uk
• call us on 0115 838 3226.

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 5 working days.

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).

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the exemption listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Navigating and accessing information – there is no way to skip repeated content in the page header.

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

PDFs and other documents

Some of our older PDFs and Word documents may not work with screen readers.

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.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 25^th September 2020. It was last reviewed in August 2025.

This website was last tested in August 2025. The test was carried internally.

In deciding on a sample of pages to test, we focussed on the main navigational pages and those most frequently visited.