Accessibility Statement

Statement of commitment

We strive to ensure all content is accessible for all users. We are committed to making accessible.ie achieve AA standard in accordance with WCAG 2.1 Guidelines. 

This accessibility statement applies to accessible.ie only.

Compliance status

This website is currently fully compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.

Non-accessible content

All content on this website is accessible. If inaccessible content is introduced in the future, it will be listed here. 

Exempted content

All content on this website is accessible. If inaccessible exempt content is introduced in the future, it will be listed here. 

How we test the accessible.ie site

Using the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) approach, we assessed the website using a combination of manual and automated tests.

We use automated tests such as ARC Toolkit and Axe Devtools and accessibility tools provided by WEBAIM to audit the website.

Our manual tests included keyboard-only navigation and Screen Reader testing using MacOS VoiceOver.

How we are going to improve accessibility on this website

Accessible.ie is currently compliant with WCAG 2.1. Our goal is to reach compliance with the latest version – WCAG 2.2.

We will ensure that new and updated content follows accessibility best practice including –

• Plain language will be used throughout the website
• Images will have accessible alt text descriptions 
• There is appropriate colour contrast used
• Programmatically determined content will be used over images of text where possible

Feedback and contact information

If you have any feedback or complaints about the accessibility of content on this site, you can email [email protected].