Accessibility Statement

Údarás na Gaeltachta is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020.

This accessibility statement applies to udaras.ie.

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 level AA, due to the non-compliances and the exemptions listed below.

We are working to improve the accessibility compliance of our website going forward.

Non-Accessible Content

The content listed below is not fully accessible:

  • We are aware that PDF documents used on this website can have accessibility issues. We are working to ensure that PDF documents are natively accessible.
  • Images: Not all images on this website have alternative text. If images do not have the alternative text descriptions then a user using assistive technologies will not learn the information conveyed in the image.
  • Videos: Audio descriptions and/or a video transcript are not provided. Audio descriptions are needed to describe the visual content in a video to Blind and visually impaired people in an audio format. Not all videos have captions. Captions are primarily for Deaf/hard of hearing people to access audio in videos.
  • Colour Contrast: Not all text elements have sufficient contrast between text in the foreground and background colours in accordance with contrast ratio thresholds.
  • Keyboard: Not all functionality is available through the keyboard.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This page was last updated on 30 January 2023.

Testing Methodology

As the website was being designed and developed it was tested for accessibility internally via a method of self assessment. In order to test the site a combination of automatic and manual testing was used. Pages on the website site were scanned with Axe DevTools and Sa11y on Google Chrome. Manual testing was conducting using keyboard only navigation techniques, the VoiceOver screenreader on MacOS and iOS and colour contrast analysers. Pages were tested against the WCAG 2.1 standard at AA level.

Feedback and Contact Information

Údarás na Gaeltachta is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for persons with disabilities. We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website.

If you have a comments or complaint about the accessibility of this website, please email our Access Officer, who can be contacted at rannogad@udaras.ie.

If you wish to request particular content in an accessible format please include the following details:

  • Your required format.
  • The content you wish to receive (please include the url of the content)
  • Your name and email address.

We will make all reasonable efforts to fulfil your request.

Enforcement procedure

If you have difficulty accessing information on this site or have suggestions as to how we could improve the accessibility of our site, please contact our Access Officer.

The 2020 Regulations state that enforcement procedure is to be “used in the case of unsatisfactory responses to any notification or request sent in accordance with Article 7(4)(c) of the 2020 Regulations

Section 38 of the Disability Act says a person, or a specified person may make a complaint in writing to the head of a public body if that body is not following the law as outlined in sections 25, 26, 27, 28 or 29 of the Act.

If you are not happy with our response, you can refer your complaint to the

Office of the Ombudsman:

Workplace Relations Commission: