Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make all documents on the gov.uk website available in alternative digital formats.

Government departments publish documents on GOV.UK in a range of formats. To ensure these are available to the widest range of people we publish in accessible formats where possible. Ensuring accessibility includes publishing in HTML, tagging all parts of the document properly for screen readers, including alt text alongside non-decorative images, avoiding tables except when presenting data and writing in plain English.

We work to update existing documents in non-accessible formats, and ensure new documents meet the requirements of The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Documents published before 23rd September 2018 are currently exempt from accessibility regulations and may not be accessible. However, we update these on a case by case basis, and alternative formats are provided on request through GOV.UK. Alternative formats (such as audio, Braille, Moon and British Sign Language interpreted versions) are provided in accordance with reasonable adjustments under Equality Act 2010 upon request.