Accessibility Statement

Open Up Music, the Registered Charity (no. 1167028) behind the Clarion  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

The following is a list of items we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:

Accessibility toolbar:

Add a toolbar toggling hat allows you to set:

  • Resize font (increase/decrease)
  • Grayscale
  • Negative Contrast
  • High Contrast
  • Light Background
  • Links Underline
  • Readable Font
  • Link to Sitemap / Feedback / Help pages
Accessibility features:
  • Enable skip to content
  • Add outline focus for focusable elements
  • Remove the target attribute from links
  • Add landmark roles to all links
  • Customiser for style adjustment
Video accessibility:
  • For all videos, you can enable subtitles and on-screen transcripts
  • We also provide links to transcripts in TXT format you can view and download

Please note that while we are committed to making our website as accessible as possible within the means of our charity, and will continue to review it and make improvements, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third party websites to which we may link.

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 help@theclarion.uk. We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.

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