We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA. This page says what we actually test rather than claiming conformance we have not measured.
What is checked on every change
- · Automated axe audits against the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rule sets, on the home page, a board page, search, the about page and a job page. A failure blocks the change rather than filing a ticket.
- · A Lighthouse accessibility score of 100 is a hard threshold, not a target — the build fails below it.
- · Contrast is set in the palette rather than by dimming. Faded text produced by opacity has caused three failures here, because opacity is applied at render and is invisible to a check that only reads the colour tokens.
How the site is built
- · Every filter and every page of results is a plain link with a real URL, so the board works with the keyboard, with a screen reader, and with JavaScript switched off.
- · Search is the one feature needing JavaScript, and it degrades to a visible message rather than an empty box when the script does not load.
- · Text reflows to phone width with no horizontal scrolling, and the site respects your system's light or dark preference.
- · Pay figures are text, never images.
What this does not cover
Automated tools find perhaps a third of real accessibility problems. We have not commissioned an external audit and no disabled user has been paid to test this site, so we cannot honestly claim full conformance — only that every check we run passes and that the structure is built for it.
Two known limits. Job adverts are written by employers, so a listing's title and pay wording are reproduced as published, including any capitalisation or punctuation that reads oddly aloud. And the search results panel is rendered by a third-party component (Pagefind) that we have not separately audited.
Tell us
If something here is hard to use or does not work with your assistive technology, email [email protected] and say what you were trying to do. A specific report beats a general one and we would genuinely rather know. If you need a listing in another format, ask and we will send it.