Ability Beyond Vision Trust centre

Accessibility statement

DRAFT — placeholder copy, not yet approved. The conformance claim below is based on our own testing of a small number of pages. It must not be presented as a formal or audited statement until independent testing with blind and partially sighted people has been completed.

This statement applies to abilitybeyondvision.org.uk and to trust.abilitybeyondvision.org.uk. It says how accessible the site is, what we know is still wrong, and how to get anything here in a different format.

How accessible this website is

We believe this website is partially conformant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2, level AA. Partially conformant means it meets the standard on the pages and criteria we have tested, but not every page has been independently audited yet, so we are not claiming full conformance.

We are choosing the cautious wording deliberately. An organisation about sight loss claiming a clean bill of health it has not earned would be worse than a modest claim it can back up.

The controls on every page

Every page carries the same accessibility controls, under Accessibility settings near the top of the screen. They work with the keyboard, are announced correctly by screen readers, and remember your choice on your device.

You do not need these controls to use the site. It also responds to your operating system's dark mode and reduced-motion settings on its own, and it works with browser zoom, browser text size, custom stylesheets, and with our CSS switched off entirely.

What we have tested, and how

Testing so far has been carried out by us, not by an independent auditor.

Criterion-by-criterion results

These are the WCAG 2.2 level AA criteria most often failed, and where we stand on each.

WCAG 2.2 level AA — self-assessed results, 21 July 2026
Criterion Result Detail
1.1.1 Non-text content Meets Meaningful images are described. Decorative repeats of the logo carry empty alt text so screen readers skip them.
1.3.1 Info and relationships Meets Real headings, lists, landmarks, fieldsets and table headers with scope. No layout tables.
1.3.5 Identify input purpose Meets No fields collect personal data yet. Autocomplete will be set on every such field when they exist.
1.4.1 Use of colour Meets No status is shown by colour alone — every label carries its own word, and links stay underlined.
1.4.3 Contrast (minimum) Meets Body text is between 9.1:1 and 21:1 in every scheme, against a 4.5:1 requirement.
1.4.4 Resize text Meets 200% via our own slider and via browser zoom, with no loss of content or function.
1.4.10 Reflow Meets No horizontal scrolling at 320px, or at 200% text plus 200% zoom. Wide tables scroll inside their own container, not the page.
1.4.11 Non-text contrast Meets Borders and control outlines are at least 4.6:1; focus indicators at least 6.8:1, against a 3:1 requirement.
1.4.12 Text spacing Meets No content is clipped when line height, letter and word spacing are increased to the specified limits.
2.1.1 / 2.1.2 Keyboard, no trap Meets Everything is operable by keyboard. There are no custom widgets and no focus traps.
2.4.1 Bypass blocks Meets A skip link is the first focusable item on every page, plus proper landmarks.
2.4.3 Focus order Meets Focus follows document order. No positive tabindex is used anywhere.
2.4.7 Focus visible Meets A 3px outline with 2px offset, in a colour chosen per scheme.
2.4.11 Focus not obscured (2.2, new) Meets Nothing on the site is sticky or floating, so focused content cannot be covered. Scroll margin is set as an extra guard.
2.5.7 Dragging movements (2.2, new) Meets The sliders can be operated with arrow keys; nothing requires a drag.
2.5.8 Target size (2.2, new) Meets All controls and navigation links are at least 44 by 44 pixels, against a 24 pixel minimum.
3.1.1 / 3.1.2 Language Meets Every page declares British English. No passages are in another language.
3.2.3 / 3.2.4 Consistent navigation and identification Meets The same navigation, in the same order, with the same labels, on every page.
3.3.1 / 3.3.2 Error identification and labels Meets Every field has a visible label. There are no live forms yet, so no error handling is in use.
3.3.7 Redundant entry (2.2, new) Meets Nothing asks you for the same information twice.
3.3.8 Accessible authentication (2.2, new) Partly Pages that are not yet public sit behind a sign-in that emails a one-time code. No puzzle or CAPTCHA is involved, and the code can be pasted. See what is not accessible yet.
4.1.2 / 4.1.3 Name, role, value and status messages Meets Native HTML controls throughout. The few ARIA attributes used are on standard patterns.

What is not accessible yet

This is the honest list. Each item has an owner and a date.

Getting information another way

Anything we publish, you can have in another format: large print, braille, plain text, audio, or read to you over the phone. There is no charge, and you do not have to explain why you need it.

Email access@abilitybeyondvision.org.uk and tell us what you want and the format you want it in. We aim to reply within five working days and to send the document within 15.

Reporting a problem

If something on this site is hard or impossible for you to use, we want to know. You are not complaining — you are doing the testing we have not managed to do yet.

We aim to acknowledge within five working days, and to fix confirmed level AA failures within 20 working days. If a fix will take longer, we will tell you why, give you a date, and offer the content another way in the meantime.

If we do not respond properly

If you contact us about an accessibility problem and are not happy with our response, you can complain to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which enforces the Equality Act 2010, through the Equality Advisory and Support Service at equalityadvisoryservice.com.

You can also use our complaints process, and you do not have to try us first.

How this statement was prepared