Accessibility Statement

Last reviewed: [date]

Our commitment

A public safety website is no use to anyone it excludes. We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA across vigilantegroup.org.

What we have built in

• Keyboard navigation throughout, with a visible focus outline on every interactive element and a “skip to main content” link.
• Semantic structure — real headings in order, landmark regions, and tables with proper header cells and captions.
• Colour contrast meeting AA for body text and interface elements.
• Text that scales — the layout reflows at 200% zoom without horizontal scrolling.
• Reduced motion — animation is disabled for visitors whose system requests it.
• No text in images for essential information.
• Descriptive links rather than “click here”.
• Responsive down to 320px, since most of our visitors arrive on a phone.

Known limitations

• Image alternative text is provisional. The placeholder graphics carry generic descriptions. When real photographs replace them, each needs a proper alt description written for it.
• Downloadable PDFs have not been tested for screen-reader accessibility. Once documents are uploaded, they should be tagged PDFs, not scanned images of paper.
• No formal audit has been carried out. The statement above describes how the site was built, not the result of an independent test.

Using this site with assistive technology

The site has been built to work with screen readers, screen magnifiers, speech recognition and keyboard-only navigation. If your assistive technology cannot reach something on this site, that is a fault on our side, not yours — please tell us.

If you cannot access something

Email vgmhqkd@gmail.com or call 0803 347 2665 with the page address and what went wrong, and we will provide the information in another format — large print, plain text, or read to you over the telephone.