The standard

This site is built and tested to WCAG 2.2 level AAA, the highest level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. That is the standard we work to, not a target we are working towards.

In the United Kingdom, the Equality Act 2010 requires a service to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. Accessibility here is the adjustment, made in the structure rather than added afterwards. Where a AAA requirement is not met yet, it is listed under “Not finished yet” below, in plain words, with nothing hidden.

What is in place

• Text can be made larger, and the layout still holds at 400% zoom.
• Text and background are held to a contrast of at least 7 to 1, the AAA level.
• Every control can be reached and used with a keyboard, with a visible focus ring.
• Nothing depends on colour alone to make sense.
• Touch targets are at least 44 by 44 pixels.
• No time limits. Nothing expires while you are reading or filling in a form.
• Nothing plays sound or moves on its own until you press play.
• Reading presets, a dyslexia-friendly font, wider spacing, plainer wording and bionic font.
• Read aloud on pages and on articles, which pauses between sentences.
• A still view that stops all motion in one tap.
• Sensory labels on every measured track, so a listener knows what is coming before it starts.
• Trade words are defined in plain English on The Words page, so no acronym is left unexplained.

Not finished yet

Stated plainly, because a statement that only lists successes is not a statement.

• Sign language interpretation: we publish no recorded video yet. When we do, it will carry British Sign Language interpretation.
• Audio description for video: same answer, the same date, the same commitment.
• Live sessions are audio, with no text transcript yet. Sessions are audio by design, and a transcript is being built.
• Cover image descriptions are written by the person who uploads the track. Most have one. Some do not, and we are going back through the shelf.

How it is checked

By keyboard alone, with a screen reader, at 400% zoom, with reduced motion switched on, and on real phones as well as a computer. Each check is repeated whenever a page changes, not once at the end.

Rights and licences

Accessibility and legality sit together here. Every track on this platform carries a recorded licence and a credit line, and nothing plays or is sold without one. Music that a buyer may legally pass on is free to play and keep; the shop only charges for music the artist holds outright. You can read the detail on licensing and IP.

If something blocks you

Tell us and we will fix it. Write in your own words, and you never have to explain why you need it or send a diagnosis. Write to us. If a page cannot be used at all, say which page and what you were trying to do, and we will answer in plain words.

Two sites, two statements

Diverse Dynamis, our education platform, publishes its own accessibility statement to this same standard, on its own site. One standard, two addresses, so neither statement can drift away from the site it describes.