Accessibility

Ink and Page is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Ink and Page takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Ink and Page:

Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
Assign clear accessibility targets and responsibilities.
Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

Further Help

You may wish to download “Browsealoud”. This is a FREE speech reader that enables you to listen rather than read our website. Browsealoud may be helpful to people with dyslexia, those who find reading difficult, those who have a mild visual impairment or those who just like to do more than one thing at a time!

Please follow this link to download Browsealoud onto your computer or select the image above.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Ink and Page. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Ink and Page:

E-mail: kim.squirrell @ gmail.com

We try to respond to feedback within 3 business days.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Ink and Page is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. Please see below for what these are.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Ink and Page is designed to be compatible with assistive technologies:

Although every effort has been made to check and test the combination of web browsers, assistive technologies, and operating systems available, there may be occasions when a combination of old or new and or mobile applications may cause a problem. Please get in touch if you have a problem with any of these.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Ink and Page relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML
• CSS

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Ink and Page, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Ink and Page:

Issues with PDFs and other documents: they may not be marked up so they’re accessible to a screen reader because the accessibility regulations don’t require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018. We will be aiming for any new PDFs or Word documents we publish to meet accessibility standards in the future. Please contact us if you encounter an issue.

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by: Ink and Page

Formal complaints

Please email kim.squirrell @ gmail.com with any concerns or complaints that you may have with regards to this accessibility statement.