Built to be usable by everyone

We are working towards WCAG 2.2 Level AA on this site — the benchmark US courts and the Department of Justice look to when applying the Americans with Disabilities Act to websites.

That is a target we are building against, not a conformance claim: no independent audit has been carried out yet, so we cannot and do not state that the site conforms.

ONCE AN AUDIT HAS BEEN DONE, REPLACE THIS SECTION WITH A PROPER CONFORMANCE STATEMENT — the standard, the level, the date, who assessed it, and the scope of pages covered. If you sell to federal agencies, Section 508 applies too and you will need a VPAT.

These are measures actually built into the site, not intentions:

• A skip link to the main content as the first focusable element on every page.
• Semantic landmarks — header, nav, main and footer — so screen readers can navigate by region.
• Menus that open on keyboard focus as well as hover, with the open state exposed via aria-expanded.
• Breadcrumbs marked up as a navigation landmark, with the current page flagged by aria-current.
• Decorative graphics hidden from assistive technology, and meaningful images given text alternatives.
• Animation that respects the operating system's reduce-motion setting.
• Form fields with real labels, and icon-only buttons with accessible names.

We would rather list these than let you discover them:

• The site has not been tested end to end with screen readers or by disabled users. Run that testing and record what it found.
• Colour contrast has not been formally verified against the 4.5:1 threshold across every state, including hover and focus styles on the navy panels.
• The mega-menu has not been validated against the WAI-ARIA authoring practices for disclosure navigation.
• ADD ANYTHING ELSE YOU FIND. A known-issues list that never grows reads as one nobody maintains.

If something on this site blocked you, we want to hear about it — including which page, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology you were using. That detail is usually what makes a fix possible.

Questions about this document can go to CONTACT_EMAIL, or through the form on our contact page. We aim to respond within RESPONSE_WINDOW, e.g. five business days.

NAME A RESPONSE COMMITMENT AND AN ESCALATION CONTACT HERE. A documented, honoured response process is among the strongest defences against an ADA website claim — and several states impose their own deadlines on top.