Our commitment to web accessibility

Community Catalysts is committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.

Ongoing efforts to ensure accessibility

We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as the Accessibility Checker WordPress Plugin, color contrast analyzers, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and Flesch-Kincaid readability tests.

Accessibility features on our website

We’ve added the ReachDeck Toolbar to our site. If you struggle with reading, have a visual impairment, or prefer to read in your own language, the ReachDeck Toolbar can help.

To launch the ReachDeck toolbar click on the orange coloured ‘speak’ button that you will see in the header of all our website pages. The toolbar will appear at the top of your screen. Now click on the first ‘pointed finger’ icon on that toolbar and hover your mouse pointer over any text on our site to hear it read out loud.

How does the ReachDeck Toolbar help?

The ReachDeck Toolbar will help you to read and translate the content on our website. Its features include:

• Text-to-speech: click on or select any text to hear it read aloud
• Translation: translate content into over 100 languages
• Text magnification: enlarge text and hear it read out loud
• MP3 generation: convert selected text into an MP3 audio file
• Screen mask: reduce glare with a tinted mask
• Web page simplifier: remove clutter from the screen. Display only the main text
• Picture dictionary: displays pictures related to text selected on the page

Need support?

Visit Texthelp’s dedicated Support Site to find helpful articles on ReachDeck.

Where we’re improving

In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

• Reviewing content for images with missing alternative texts, assessing if these images are decorative or not, and adding descriptive alt text to non decorative images.
• Reviewing content for headings in the incorrect order.
• Reviewing content for ambiguous anchor text.

Accessibility support contact

We welcome comments, questions, and feedback on our website. If you are using assistive technologies and are having difficulty using our website, please email info@communitycatalysts.co.uk or give us a call at 01423 503937. We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.