Making your report accessible
Use these guidelines for all Acas research and evaluation reports, before submitting a first draft.
The guidelines will help you to:
- format your report
- make sure your report is accessible for users with different needs
The Government Analysis Function also produces guidance on report style. We occasionally reference or link to this. Where their guidance is different to ours, you should follow the Acas guidance.
Accessibility regulations
Accessible content considers disabled people. This includes people with:
- sensory impairments – for example, limited vision
- motor impairments – for example, people who use voice to navigate
- cognitive impairments – for example, dyslexia
Important: The Acas website must be accessible. This is by law: The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
The law says all public sector websites must conform to:
"Level A and AA Success Criteria as set out in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium".
These guidelines will help make your reports as accessible as possible. However:
- there's no exhaustive list of instructions you can follow to guarantee all aspects of a report will be accessible
- reports might still need some amendments after drafting
- we might still suggest changes to documents, figures or tables you send us
Contact us
We encourage authors to:
- supply first drafts early
- ask questions if you're not sure
- give us feedback on these guidelines
You can do all of these things through your Acas contact.