Disproportionate burden assessment for documents
We have carried out a disproportionate burden assessment on Microsoft Office files and PDF documents that are not essential to the provision of patient care, such as strategies, annual reports and board papers.
We know that some documents on this website (www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk) are not fully accessible. It is likely that many future documents will not be fully accessible either. Some documents are in less accessible formats, such as PDF. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships.
Documents on our website are created by people from all across the Trust. Some documents are compiled by multiple people shortly before they are legally required to be published. These documents regularly contain hundreds of pages which contain graphs, diagrams and scanned images of text.
Each document would require between 2 and 40 hours of work to be recreated in a fully accessible version. The number of documents is estimated to be over 100.
Interest in these documents is low. We will always assist with accessible versions on request.
We have concluded that ensuring every document published on our website meets the accessibility legislation would be a poor use of staff time. This represents a disproportionate burden on our Trust.