We want everyone to be able to use this website, including people who use a screen reader, browse by keyboard, rely on magnification, or use other assistive technology.
As a small volunteer-run charity, we’re not legally required to publish an accessibility statement — that requirement applies to public sector bodies, not to us — but we think it matters, so here’s an honest account of where things stand.
What we’ve done
- The site’s visual design (its “theme”) was chosen partly for its accessibility record: an independent automated audit found zero WCAG 2.x A/AA violations, checked on every page, at both desktop and phone widths.
- Every photograph on the site — across the gallery, news, archive and every other page — has “alt text”: a written description of what it shows, for anyone who can’t see the photo itself.
- The site works without JavaScript for its core content, and is built to work with keyboard navigation and screen readers throughout.
This is an ongoing piece of work as much as a finished one. Alt text in particular is reviewed and improved over time, and if you spot one that could be better, we’d genuinely like to hear about it.
More on the technical side of this is on our How This Website Works page.
Where we currently fall short
Some of the documents in our Archive are older PDFs recovered from a previous version of the charity’s website — scanned newsletters, reports and the like. Some of these may not be fully accessible to a screen reader: an older scan may have no proper text layer at all, or one that isn’t entirely reliable. We haven’t yet gone through every one of these to check or fix this.
If you need one of these documents in a different format, or run into anything else on the site that’s hard to use, please get in touch and we’ll do what we can to help.
Feedback
We’d like to know about any accessibility problems you find, on this page or anywhere else on the site — contact us to let us know.