Website Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to use our website. This includes people who may need extra help to access online content.

This statement applies to this website and we are always working to improve it. Our goal is to make sure every visitor can find, use and understand the information they need.

How we support accessibility

To make our website more inclusive we are:

  • Making accessibility part of our policies and planning
  • Working with trusted tools like Recite Me to make the website easier to use

Recite Me accessibility toolbar

We use Recite Me, a tool that helps you customise the website to suit your needs.
When you turn it on, you can:

  • listen to the page with text-to-speech
  • change the colours, text size, fonts and spacing
  • translate text into over 100 languages
  • zoom in without text falling off the screen
  • view a simplified, text-only version of pages
  • navigate using just your keyboard
  • download page text as an MP3.

You can find the Recite Me toolbar at the top right hand side of our website.

Our accessibility standards

We are working to meet the WCAG 2.2 Level AA standard (Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines). This means:

  • the site should work well with screen readers and other assistive tech
  • it’s designed to be readable, usable and flexible across devices and browsers.

The website relies on:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These tools help deliver an accessible experience for everyone.

We’re still working

We’re committed to improving accessibility. Where there may be areas of the site that don’t fully meet the standard yet, we’re working on it with Recite Me and our developers.

Problems using the website?

If you find something you can’t access or use, please let us know. We’ll try to provide the information in another format. Please email and we’ll do our best to get back to you as soon as we can.

If you’re not happy with how we’ve responded to your accessibility issue, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service for further help.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission makes sure public websites meet accessibility rules.

Third-party content

Some parts of our website use tools or content from other organisations. Example of these are embedded maps or forms. We try to make sure these meet accessibility
standards, but they may sometimes work differently from the rest of the site.

What we’re doing next

We’re continuing to:

  • test the website
  • fix issues we find
  • train our teams to keep accessibility at the centre of what we do

We want everyone who visits the Cancer Fund for Children website to access the information and services they need, and we are committed to improving their experience.