IHREC is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.
We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.
Conformance status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.
It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 level AA, due to the non-accessible content listed below.
Non-Accessible Content
Some content on IHREC's website does not fully comply with the European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020.
For example:
Some documents in PDF may not be fully accessible - they may lack alternative text for data, not have correct table heading tab orders, or headings and images may not have sufficient colour contrast.
- Our staff are reviewing and improving the accessibility of PDFs and are working to address identified issues on an ongoing basis
IHREC uses Mailjet to manage our newsletter subscriptions. Mailjet has some accessibility issues, such as:
- Use of Colour – Important information such as error states should be conveyed using more than colour alone (e.g. text or icons in addition to red borders).
- Error Identification – Input errors should be clearly identified with descriptive text to support user understanding.
- Correction Suggestions – When possible, suggestions for correcting input errors should be provided to guide users.
- Status Messages – Status messages should be programmatically determinable and announced via assistive technologies without requiring focus.
Since these are third-party elements originating from mailjet, we currently have no ability to rectify these issues Our staff continue to seek a solution for these issues.
Contact us
We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime, should you experience any difficulty in accessing the IHREC website, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
- Phone: +353 (0)1 859 2605
- E-mail: access@ihrec.ie
- Postal address: IHREC, 16 – 22 Green Street, Dublin 7, D07 CR20
We will try to respond to your valuable feedback within 5 business days.
We are committed to regularly reviewing and updating this accessibility statement to reflect the latest status of accessibility improvements on the IHREC website.
This statement was initially created on June 25, 2025 and last reviewed on June 25, 2025. As we continue to make enhancements to enhance accessibility, we will provide updates in this statement to keep our users informed of our progress.
A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd., through the IHREC website’s redesign process and with a combination of automated and manual accessibility audits, and the edits that derived from them, for the development process.