Designed for broad access
Accessibility statement
How the site supports keyboard, screen-reader, zoom and reduced-motion use.
Effective . Contact: [email protected]
Current accessibility support
The site uses semantic headings, labelled navigation, keyboard-visible focus, a skip link and tables with captions and row or column headers. Text and controls are designed for zoom, while directories reflow from columns to a single reading order. Illustrations are supplementary; their alt text describes the abstract composition without carrying facts that are absent from the page.
Motion is minimal and disabled when a reduced-motion preference is present. Form controls retain visible labels. Colour is not the only indicator of verification status, and the palette has been selected for readable contrast on the warm paper background.
Known limitations and feedback
Large data tables may require horizontal scrolling on narrow screens; their containers can receive keyboard focus. External archive and platform pages have their own accessibility policies and may not follow the same design. If a heading, link label, table or focus sequence prevents access, email [email protected] with the page URL and the assistive technology or browser involved.
Accessibility is reviewed alongside content validation. Corrections are prioritised when they block a task such as reaching a source link, understanding a coverage status or submitting an editorial correction.
Testing approach
Representative home, parish, record-type and guide pages are checked at a mobile viewport for performance, accessibility, best practice and search fundamentals. The generated HTML is also inspected without client interaction so that canonical links, headings, source URLs and structured data remain available to assistive technology and crawlers.
Keyboard users can bypass repeated navigation, open the mobile menu and follow visible focus states. Table headers identify the meaning of each coverage column, while horizontal overflow is contained on narrow screens. If browser zoom or a different reading mode reveals a problem, the correction process asks for the exact page and task rather than personal information.
Accessibility fixes are applied to shared components where possible so that one correction improves every generated route. Content remains understandable without the decorative illustrations, and no image contains required instructions or source data.