Accessibility
A house with no step at the door
We are restoring a building so that everyone can come in. The same has to be true of this website. Below is an honest account of where it stands.
Conformance status
Partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA
“Partially conformant” means most of the standard is met, but not all of it. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are the international benchmark for accessible websites, and level AA is the level most organisations aim for. We are committed to reaching it in full, and the gaps are listed further down this page rather than left for you to discover.
What works today
- Every page can be reached and used with a keyboard alone, and the focus outline stays visible as you move.
- A “Skip to content” link appears when focused, so you can jump past the main navigation.
- Animations stop for anyone whose device asks for reduced motion, including the moving row of pots.
- The home pot row has an explicit Pause control as well as pausing on hover.
- Text is real text, never an image of text, so it survives being zoomed to 200% or restyled by your browser.
- Photographs carry descriptions, and purely decorative shapes are hidden from screen readers rather than read aloud.
- Form fields have permanent visible labels, not placeholder text that disappears the moment you type.
- Pages use proper headings and landmarks, so screen reader users can jump rather than wade.
What is not right yet
These are the barriers we already know about. Each one is on the list to fix.
Gold text on cream backgrounds
Our gold reaches roughly 2.1:1 against the cream page, well under the 4.5:1 the standard asks for. It is used for the small uppercase labels above section headings across most of the site.
Affects people with low vision or colour vision deficiency.
Faint secondary text
Hint lines, input placeholders, character counters and photo captions are set at opacities that fall between roughly 3:1 and 4:1 against their background.
Affects people with low vision, and anyone on a screen in daylight.
Form errors are not announced precisely
Validation messages appear on screen and are announced, but they are not yet tied to the individual field they belong to, so the connection is not obvious out of context.
Affects screen reader users completing forms.
Not yet tested with real assistive technology
We have not completed an end-to-end test with screen readers such as NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver, and no independent audit has been carried out.
Means this list is almost certainly incomplete.
Found a barrier? Tell us
If something on this site stopped you doing what you came to do — especially if it stopped you giving — we want to hear about it. You do not need to know the technical reason.
Email hello@pvnbelfast.org or use the contact form. Telling us the page you were on and what you were trying to do is enough. We aim to reply within three working days.
Need something in another format — large print, plain text, or read aloud over the phone? Ask, and we will arrange it. Giving should never depend on a screen.
This statement was prepared on 26 September 2026 following an internal review of the site by the team that builds it. It has not been independently audited. It is next due for review on 26 March 2027, or sooner if the site changes significantly.
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