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Accessibility Statement

Last updated: 10 October 2024

Accessibility Statement for Orbit Homes

This is an accessibility statement from Orbit Group. We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities across all our websites, including Orbit Homes. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Orbit Group takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Orbit Homes:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies
  • Include people with disabilities in our design personas
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Orbit Homes is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Orbit Homes. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Orbit Homes:

Phone: 0800 678 1221

Email: Accessibility@orbit.org.uk

Postal Address: Orbit Group, Garden Court, Harry Weston Road, Binley Business Park, Coventry, CV3 2SU

Social media: Instagram or Facebook

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

The Orbit Homes website is compatible with all major web browsers and operating systems. We will be conducting an internal audit of all our websites to understand their compatibility with all available browser versions and operating systems.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Orbit Homes relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Accessibility limitations

After thorough evaluation of the Orbit Homes website, we have identified a number of accessibility issues that we are working to address:

  • Provide a way for users to skip repeated blocks of content
  • All content is accessible with the keyboard interface
  • Content, structure and relationships can be programmatically determined, or are available in text
  • Every link’s purpose is clear from its text or context, unless ambiguous for users in general (Screen Reader Text).
  • Provide text alternatives for non-text content that serves the same purpose.
  • Provide captions for videos with audio.
  • Provide an alternative to video-only and audio-only content
  • Keyboard focus is visible when used.
  • Identify and describe input errors for users.
  • Code passes W3C validation with no major errors.
  • No images of text unless essential (i.e. Logotypes).
  • Each input field collecting information must be informative to the user (The purpose of input fields must be programmatically determinable.)
  • Offer at least two ways to find pages on your website
  • Contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for all text, except Large text at ratio 3:1 (large is greater than 14pt bold or 18 point)
  • The contrast between user interface components, graphics and adjacent colours is at least 3:1

Assessment approach

Orbit Group assessed the accessibility of Orbit Homes by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • External evaluation

Date

This statement was created on 25 September 2024 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.