Our commitment

Notts County Foundation is committed to making this website usable by as many people as possible, including people who use screen readers, magnification, speech recognition, or a keyboard instead of a mouse.

We build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA — the internationally recognised standard, and the one used across the UK public sector.

What we have done

Accessibility is built into the site itself rather than added on top of it. In practice that means:

  • No third-party accessibility overlay. Overlay widgets claim to fix an inaccessible site automatically. They do not, and they can interfere with the assistive technology someone already uses. The accessibility built into this site is in the site's own code.
  • The site works without JavaScript. If scripts fail or are blocked, every page still renders and every link still works.
  • Semantic HTML, headings and landmarks so screen-reader users can navigate by structure, plus a "Skip to main content" link on every page.
  • Keyboard access throughout, with a visible focus indicator.
  • Colour contrast enforced at design-token level and audited against the 4.5:1 threshold for body text and 3:1 for large text and interface components.
  • Respect for your device settings, including dark mode and reduced motion.
  • Text that reflows without horizontal scrolling from 320px to 1920px, and scales with your browser's zoom.

Accessibility preferences

The site also offers its own preferences panel with twelve controls: increased contrast, highlighted links, bigger text, text spacing, increased line height, text alignment, pause animations, hide images, a dyslexia-friendly font, a larger cursor, tooltips, and saturation adjustment. These are a convenience on top of an accessible site, not a substitute for one.

How we test

Automated testing runs against the full WCAG 2.2 AA ruleset (axe-core) on the built site, in both light and dark themes, and it runs as a build gate — if an accessibility regression appears, the build fails. The current result is zero violations. Every page template is also rebuilt and checked on every change, and the site is rendered and checked in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.

We treat automated results as a floor, not as proof. Automated tools detect only a minority of real accessibility barriers. They can confirm that an image has alternative text, but not that the text is meaningful; that a page has headings, but not that their order makes sense. Of the six criteria added in WCAG 2.2, current automated tooling can check only one.

What is not yet done

We would rather tell you this plainly than claim more than we have verified:

  • A manual screen-reader pass has not yet been carried out. Testing each template with NVDA and VoiceOver is the main outstanding step, along with a full keyboard-only and zoom review. It is scheduled and not yet funded.
  • Form error and success messages are verified once the form back-end is connected.

For that reason we describe this site as built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA rather than as certified conformant. We will update this page when the manual testing is complete.

A detailed criterion-by-criterion conformance record is maintained internally and is available on request.

Telling us about a problem

If you find something on this website you cannot use, please tell us — it helps us fix it for everyone.

Email info@nottscountyfoundation.org.uk or call 0115 859 9968. Please tell us the page address and what went wrong, and we will respond as quickly as we can.

If you need information from this site in a different format — such as large print, plain text or an accessible document — contact us using the same details and we will do our best to help.