Last reviewed in August 2026
The target is WCAG 2.1 at level AA. We are not there on every page. Saying where we fall short is
more use to you than a claim of compliance nobody has audited.
What is in place
- The content is in the HTML and it reads with JavaScript switched off. Nothing that matters is
built by a script.
- Motion follows the reduced motion setting of your system. With it on, nothing animates into
view.
- Headings run in order, and every page carries a breadcrumb above the title.
- Forms have real labels, and the reply after sending is announced to a screen reader rather than
only shown.
- The photo credit is text above the image and visible at all times, never something that appears
only when a mouse passes over it.
- No native browser dialogue is used anywhere, so nothing steals focus without warning.
What falls short today
- Photographs carry an empty alt attribute. That is correct for the decorative ones and wrong for
the ones that carry information, and telling the two apart is work that has not been done yet.
- Labels and datelines are set in small capitals with wide letter spacing, below the size that is
comfortable to read.
- Grey text on cream clears the AA threshold for body size without much room to spare.
- The club map is a drawing of the world with links on it. A reader who cannot use it will find
the same links in the country list on the home page, which is the accessible route to the same
pages.
- Nobody who uses a screen reader every day has been through the site. That is the test that finds
what a checklist misses, and it has not happened.
Tell us
If something here stopped you, write down which page and what happened and send it. It goes to
the front of the list, ahead of whatever else was planned.
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