Gardeners Crofton Park Accessibility Statement

Gardeners Crofton Park is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive online experience for all visitors. We want everyone in the Crofton Park area, including people with disabilities, to be able to access information about our gardening services easily and independently. This accessibility statement explains the steps we have taken to make our website more usable and what you can do if you encounter any barriers.

Our Accessibility Commitment

Our goal is for the Gardeners Crofton Park website to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 level AA. These guidelines are recognised as an international standard for making web content more accessible for people with a wide range of needs, including visual, auditory, motor and cognitive impairments.

We aim to make our information and services available to as many people as possible in the Crofton Park area, whether you are viewing our site on a desktop computer, tablet or mobile device, and regardless of your preferred assistive technologies.

Measures to Support Accessibility

To support WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, we have implemented the following features on the Gardeners Crofton Park website:

Semantic structure: Pages are organised with clear headings and logical content order to help all users, including those using assistive technologies, find information about our gardening services in Crofton Park efficiently.

Text alternatives: Where possible, non text content such as images have alternative text so that screen readers can describe them to users who cannot see them.

Colour and contrast: We work to maintain sufficient colour contrast between text and background to improve readability, particularly for users with low vision or colour vision deficiencies.

Resizable text: Text can typically be resized using browser settings without loss of content or functionality, helping users who require larger fonts.

Screen Reader Support

The Gardeners Crofton Park website is designed to be compatible with modern screen reader software. We use clear headings, meaningful page titles and descriptive labels for form fields where applicable. This helps people who rely on audio or braille output to navigate our gardening information and service details in a structured and predictable way.

We aim to avoid elements that can cause confusion for screen readers, such as purely visual cues without text, and we continuously review our content to ensure that important information is accessible to those who cannot see the page.

Keyboard Navigation

Our website is intended to be fully navigable using only a keyboard, without the need for a mouse or trackpad. Users should be able to move through navigation menus, links, and forms using standard keyboard controls such as the Tab, Shift plus Tab, Enter and arrow keys.

We aim to provide a clear visual focus indicator for the currently selected link or control. This helps users who rely on keyboard navigation to understand where they are on the page and move easily between different sections of our accessible gardening content for the Crofton Park area.

Ongoing Improvements

Accessibility is an ongoing process. We regularly review and test our website to identify areas for improvement and to keep up to date with best practices and evolving accessibility standards. As we add new features or content about our gardening services in Crofton Park, we aim to ensure they meet the same level of accessibility as the rest of the site.

Feedback and Contact for Accessibility Requests

We welcome feedback from users about the accessibility of the Gardeners Crofton Park website. If you experience any difficulty accessing information, using our forms, or navigating any part of the site, please contact us and let us know which page or feature is causing problems, and what assistive technology or browser you are using if you are comfortable sharing this.

You can contact us through the contact form provided on our website. When you get in touch, our team will review your request and work to provide the information you need in an accessible format. We also take all accessibility comments into account when planning future updates and improvements to the site.

We are committed to making Gardeners Crofton Park as accessible and inclusive as possible so that everyone in the Crofton Park community can learn about and benefit from our gardening services.