Accessibility

Checked WCAG 2.0 (Level AA) using AChecker. “Known Problems” PASS. “Likely Problems” PASS.

Checked and updated by the web designer JV August 2023. Checks will be routinely made over the following months.

Known – and unavoidable – problems

A) Font Awesome uses “i” or “<i>” for their code. This is universal and not specific to just our website (if we choose to use Font Awesome) and unavoidable. It naturally returns as an issue on AChecker (1).

B) Alt text for icons, functional or purely decorative aspects of this site: I have still added Alt text even if they are not required or duplicated on some pages. Some Alt text will naturally be duplicated without me knowing (1). This returns as an error on AChecker but could in fact be interpreted as incorrect/redundant. (2)

C) This website has been made bespoke as per our client needs. Some bespoke requests, although built with Accessibility in mind, may return minor errors which will not impact everyday use of the site. This is not currently the case but future updates may return “likely” issues. We currently have no likely issues.

References and reasoning

1) This site uses WordPress and some interactions with both WordPress, 3rd party plugins or editing can cause unforeseeable issues with this report. See A) above.

2) W3 Alt decision tree

3) This website has web editors. Whilst every effort has been made to promote and maintain a high level of accessibility on our website, some aspects of the site will need revisiting regularly.

Notes

• We do not and cannot fix Accessibility issues for third-party serves (for example YouTube) nor plugins this site uses, including Campaign Monitor’s “submit your email address to receive the latest news” pop-up. This is up to both the third-party and plugin creators to uphold and we cannot force fixes to these aspects of our design.
• This site will be routinely checked and fixed if appl.