AABRS® is committed to making its website accessible to as many people as possible, including those who rely on assistive technology or have difficulty using standard web features. This statement explains the standard we aim to meet, where we currently fall short, and how to tell us about any problem you encounter.
The Standard We Aim to Meet
We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, the current standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines ask that content is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
WCAG 2.2 added nine success criteria to version 2.1, covering things like target size, focus visibility and consistent help. We have not yet assessed the site against those new criteria, so our current assessment below is against the 2.1 requirements that carry over into 2.2.
How We Are Doing Against It
This website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. “Partially conformant” means parts of the site do not meet the standard. We would rather set out what those parts are than describe the position in general terms, so they are listed below with what we know about each.
Areas we know need improvement include:
- Colour contrast: several of our colours do not meet the AA contrast requirement of 4.5:1 for normal text. Our brand orange reaches 2.1:1 on white, which also falls short of the 3:1 required for large text and for buttons and other interface components. Two greys used for secondary text reach 1.9:1 and 2.9:1, and the red used for warnings and form errors reaches 4.0:1. Our main brand blue and our body text colour both pass. Retested and confirmed on 20 August 2026.
- Skip to content: the site does not provide a “skip to main content” link, so people using a keyboard or a screen reader have to move through the whole navigation on every page before reaching the content. Retested and confirmed on 20 August 2026.
- Links without text: some icon and image links do not carry descriptive text for screen readers, so a screen reader announces the link without saying where it goes. Identified in the July 2026 automated test and not yet retested.
- Older images: some images published before we began checking for it are missing alternative text. Identified in the July 2026 automated test and not yet retested.
The list above came from automated testing in July 2026. On 20 August 2026 we rechecked the first two items directly against the site’s code and confirmed that both are still present; the contrast figures given are measured, not estimated. The third and fourth items have not been rechecked.
We have not yet carried out a full manual audit. That would include keyboard-only navigation, screen-reader testing, and the criteria new in WCAG 2.2. Until we have, this statement describes what we know rather than everything there is to know, and there may be problems we have not found.
Telling Us About an Accessibility Problem
If you cannot access any part of this website, or you find something difficult to use, we want to hear about it. Tell us what you were trying to do and what went wrong. We aim to reply within five working days, and we will provide the information you need in a format that works for you, whether or not we have fixed the underlying problem yet.
- Email: info@aabrs.com
- Phone: 0208 444 3400
This statement was prepared on 14 July 2026 and last reviewed on 20 August 2026. We review it as the website changes and as we work through the items above.