This accessibility statement applies to the science.police.uk website.

This website is run by The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser (OPCSA). 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
• navigate 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)

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 not fully accessible:

• The Police Science System interactive graphic is not fully keyboard accessible, but all the content is available via the site navigation.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please let us know using the information on our contact us page.

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, then let us know. We’ll consider your request and get back to you in as soon as possible.

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 about this website’s accessibility

The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser (OPCSA) is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

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 the non-compliances listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

As noted above, the Police Science System interactive graphic is not fully accessible with a keyboard, but all content is available via the main navigation. Success Criterion 2.1.3 Keyboard (No Exception)(Level AAA)

Some images may not have a suitable text alternative. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
We have an ongoing process to identify and add image descriptions to all images.

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

PDFs and other documents

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; however, we do not currently have any such documents.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 13 March 2026.

This website was last tested on 13 March 2026 against the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.

The test was carried out by our website developers millipedia.

A representative sample of pages was tested using the WAVE accessibility evaluation tool, Google Lighthouse, and manual inspection.