Accessibility Statement

We are committed to ensuring our website is accessible to everyone. Our goal is to provide an inclusive experience that meets recognised standards, enabling all users to navigate, interact, and access information with ease. This statement outlines the steps we have taken to improve accessibility, the features available to support diverse needs, and our ongoing efforts to comply with WCAG 2.1 guidelines and relevant regulations.

Accessibility statement for the Career Development Institute

This accessibility statement applies to the domain www.thecdi.net and all subdomains and connected sites. 

This website is run by the Career Development Institute and developed in partnership with our digital provider, IDHL. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to: 

  • change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings 
  • zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen 
  • navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software 
  • listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver) 

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. 

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

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are fully accessible based on the following compliant criteria: 

  • Ensure an element's role supports its ARIA attributes 
  • Ensure role attribute has an appropriate value for the element 
  • Ensure ARIA attributes are used as described in the specification of the element's role 
  • Ensure elements do not use deprecated roles 
  • Ensure aria-hidden="true" is not present on the document body 
  • Ensure aria-hidden elements are not focusable nor contain focusable elements 
  • Ensure ARIA attributes are not prohibited for an element's role 
  • Ensure elements with ARIA roles have all required ARIA attributes 
  • Ensure all elements with a role attribute use a valid value 
  • Ensure all ARIA attributes have valid values 
  • Ensure attributes that begin with aria- are valid ARIA attributes 
  • Ensure that text spacing set through style attributes can be adjusted with custom stylesheets 
  • Ensure each page has at least one mechanism for a user to bypass navigation and jump straight to the content 
  • Ensure each HTML document contains a non-empty <title> element 
  • Ensure every id attribute value used in ARIA and in labels is unique 
  • Ensure headings have discernible text 
  • Ensure form field does not have multiple label elements 
  • Ensure <iframe> and <frame> elements contain the axe-core script 
  • Ensure <iframe> and <frame> elements contain a unique title attribute 
  • Ensure <iframe> and <frame> elements have an accessible name 
  • Ensure the order of headings is semantically correct 
  • Ensure the lang attribute of the <html> element has a valid value 
  • Ensure image alternative is not repeated as text 
  • Ensure input buttons have discernible text 
  • Ensure that every form element has a visible label and is not solely labeled using hidden labels, or the title or aria-described by attributes 
  • Ensure every form element has a label 
  • Ensure the banner landmark is at top level 
  • Ensure the contentinfo landmark is at top level 
  • Ensure the main landmark is at top level 
  • Ensure the document has at most one banner landmark 
  • Ensure the document has at most one contentinfo landmark 
  • Ensure the document has at most one main landmark 
  • Ensure the document has a main landmark 
  • Ensure landmarks are unique 
  • Ensure links are distinguished from surrounding text in a way that does not rely on color 
  • Ensure that lists are structured correctly 
  • Ensure <li> elements are used semantically 
  • Ensure <meta name="viewport"> can scale a significant amount 
  • Ensure <meta name="viewport"> does not disable text scaling and zooming 
  • Ensure interactive controls are not nested as they are not always announced by screen readers or can cause focus problems for assistive technologies 
  • Elements marked as presentational should not have global ARIA or tabindex to ensure all screen readers ignore them 
  • Ensure lang attributes have valid values 

However, we are also aware that some parts of this website are not fully accessible based on the following non-compliant issues: 

  • Ensures the contrast between foreground and background colors meets WCAG 2 AA minimum contrast ratio thresholds 
  • Ensures every HTML document has a lang attribute 
  • Ensures <img> elements have alternate text or a role of none or presentation 
  • Ensures links have discernible text 
  • Ensure that the page, or at least one of its frames contains a level-one heading 
  • Ensures all page content is contained by landmarks 
  • Ensure Buttons Have Accessible Names 

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact: [email protected]. 

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

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 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). 

Technical information

The CDI is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. 

The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standard. This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to non-compliant issues raised above. 

This statement was prepared on 1st November 2023. It was last reviewed on 11th December 2025. 

This website was last tested on 8th December 2025 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard. The test was carried out by the CDI Digital team. The most viewed pages were tested using automated testing tools by our website team. A further audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard. 

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