Enabling accessible content for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) have been a VerseOne customer since early 2021. At VerseOne, we constantly work with our customers to help drive process improvements, deliver efficiencies, and empower NHS Trusts to provide accessible online experiences for their users.
Our most recent project with SLAM involved implementing the Accessible Document Converter module as part of their VerseOne Content Management System (CMS) installation. As part of this project the SLAM installation required an upgrade, once that was successfully completed the ADC module was enabled.
Making the inaccessible, accessible
Much like NHS Trusts across the UK, SLAM have a wide range of content – such as policy documents, leaflets and informational materials – that they host online in the form of PDFs. Whether these are plain but lengthy word document style pieces, or heavily designed infographics featuring pictures and graphs, PDF documents are inaccessible by design. They can’t be read by screen readers, and with almost 2 million people living with visual impairments across the UK, a significant portion of SLAMs online content is inaccessible to many of their users.
VerseOne’s Accessible Documents Creator solves this problem by automatically reading Word and PDF documents, and converting them into clean, Accessible HTML pages — complete with Accessibility Checker and suggested corrections, inpage navigation indices, and links to the original document.
The content team at SLAM can simply upload their documents, tick the Conversion option and be confident that everyone, of all abilities, can access this critical information — and with minimal effort.
Looking forward to an accessible future
We’re proud to have worked with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to enhance their current CMS installation, and enable the effortless conversion of accessible content to enhance the user experience of their patients.
If you’d like to understand how your Trust could benefit from providing accessible content at scale, get in touch with the VerseOne team today.