Here’s our quick and easy statement to understand Accessibility
Here at PrimarySite our approach to Accessibility is to support WCAG 2.1 Level AA
What does this mean for your website?
We will strive to make sure that we are meeting the 2018 accessibility regulations as public sector bodies must now do. These bodies can also include; central government and local government organisations and some charities and other non-government organisations.
At PrimarySite our main concern is your website design and the content that a school or trust cannot edit themselves. We already recognise that the responsibility of the content does sit with the school or trust to keep updated themselves.
- We will fully support that all Trust websites are classed as public bodies, and therefore must be accessible.
- All SEN (Special Educational Needs) must be accessible.
- PrimarySite will make all pre-designed templates accessible.
- Some accessibility features will be produced on school websites as default.
What features will be accessible on your website?
For a logged-out user, a person who is viewing the website homepage, will be able to see a high visibility button. When clicked and turned on, you will see the contrast colours appear on a darker screen background. To revert you will see there is a Full Media Mode button to click.
On your PrimarySite website, the accessibility features in place will be –
Homepage Slideshow – The Homepage slideshow (full-width) will now have an option to add a one time 90 character screen reader option, which can be mentioned during the website design process, there is only one caption for the entire slideshow not one per image, also we do not need to detail that there are images as the screen reader will automatically pick this up and will say ‘image of’ before the description. A website can still have up to 8 images.
For Non-Full Width Homepage Slideshows – the above functionality will be available on this type of design also.
Images Block – you can still choose the layout that you wish to display images in, however there is a description offered for each image rather than one per slideshow. Again, the screen-reader will inform the user that this is an image unless there is an empty ‘ALT TAG’ which will then ignore the image completely.
We want everyone who visits our website to have an enjoyable experience and be able to easily navigate and use our site. With this in mind, we are working towards requirements of WCAG2.1 level AA.
If you are having difficulty accessing any of the material on our website, please email us at or call and we will get back to you as soon as possible.