Accessibility statement

Every page uses real HTML landmarks — a banner, navigation, one main region and a footer — with headings in order from a single page title downwards. A skip link is the first thing keyboard and screen-reader users reach, and it jumps straight past the navigation to the content.

Everything interactive is a real link or button, so it is reachable and operable with a keyboard in the order it appears. Focus is shown with a visible outline that does not rely on colour alone. The programme accordion reports its open or closed state, and the current page is marked in the navigation.

Every text colour on the site has been measured against its background. The lowest ratio is 4.57:1 and the rest sit between 5.5:1 and 18.8:1, so all body and interface text meets WCAG 2.1 AA for contrast. Text can be resized in the browser and the layout reflows down to a 320-pixel-wide screen.

Colour is never the only signal. Statuses, requirement labels and disclosure classifications all carry words, not just a colour.

The only animations are a short fade on arrival and one slow pulse. Both stop entirely when your system asks for reduced motion. Nothing on the site flashes, autoplays or moves on a loop that cannot be stopped.

The two network diagrams carry text descriptions of what they show. Decorative rules, corner marks and the background grid are hidden from assistive technology. Where a photograph is not yet published, the placeholder says what will go there rather than sitting silent.

Card outlines and section separators are drawn at 1.5:1 to 2.5:1 against the background, below the 3:1 that WCAG 2.1 asks for non-text contrast. They are decoration rather than the only way to identify a control: every button and field also carries a text label at full contrast. We will raise these when the palette is next revised.

Section labels, tags and dates are set in monospaced capitals at 10 to 12 pixels with wide letter spacing. Contrast is high, but the size is small and capitals are harder to read. They never carry information that is not also available in the surrounding text.

Delegate applications are collected in Google Forms, whose accessibility is Google’s. If the form is a barrier for you, write to us and we will take your application by email instead — that offer is genuine and using it costs you nothing in the scoring.

Human attendance is registered on impulzforum.com and demonstration videos are hosted on YouTube or Vimeo. We do not control those sites and cannot speak for them.

The claims above come from our own testing, not from a third-party audit or a full assistive- technology test pass across screen readers. We describe this as substantially conformant with WCAG 2.1 AA, not certified.