Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for Gardeners St Helier

Gardeners St Helier is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, including people with disabilities and users of assistive technologies. We aim to make it easy for residents and businesses in the accessible Gardeners St Helier area to find information about our gardening services, contact us, and understand what we offer, regardless of technology or ability.

Our Accessibility Commitment

We are working to align this website with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1 at level AA. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Following these guidelines also helps make our site more usable for all visitors in St Helier and beyond.

Accessibility is an ongoing process. As we develop and improve our content and services, we regularly review pages, features, and design decisions to identify and fix potential accessibility barriers.

Screen Reader Support

The website for Gardeners St Helier is designed to support common screen readers used on desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices. We aim to use clear heading structures, logical reading order, and meaningful text alternatives for images where appropriate so that screen reader users can understand our content and services.

Where possible, we use simple language, descriptive page titles, and informative headings. This helps screen reader users move quickly to the information they need, such as details on gardening services, service areas in St Helier, or how to get in touch for accessible gardening support.

Keyboard Navigation

Our website is being developed to work for users who rely on a keyboard rather than a mouse or touch screen. You should be able to move through navigation menus, content sections, and forms using standard keyboard commands. Interactive components are being checked to ensure that they can receive focus and be activated using the keyboard alone.

We aim to maintain a visible focus indicator so that keyboard users can see where they are on the page at all times. This is especially important for visitors in the Gardeners St Helier area who may have mobility or motor impairments and depend on keyboard or alternative input devices.

Visual Design and Readability

We aim to use sufficient colour contrast between text and background to improve readability for users with low vision or colour vision deficiencies. We also aim to ensure that text can be resized using browser controls without loss of content or functionality, helping users who prefer larger text or need zoomed layouts to view information about our gardening services.

We avoid relying on colour alone to convey important information, and we structure content so that it remains understandable even when styles are adjusted by assistive technologies or custom user settings.

Ongoing Improvements

We recognise that technology and accessibility standards change over time. Gardeners St Helier reviews the site periodically to identify areas for improvement and to enhance accessibility features. We prioritise changes that have the greatest impact on users with disabilities, especially for core pages that describe our services in the St Helier area and how to contact us.

Contact for Accessibility Requests

If you experience any difficulty accessing information on this website, or if you encounter a barrier that prevents you from using our gardening services online, we want to hear from you. Please contact us and describe the issue, the page where it occurred, the device and browser you were using, and any assistive technology involved, such as a screen reader, screen magnifier, or alternative input device.

You can also use our contact form to request information in alternative formats, such as larger print descriptions of services or simplified written summaries of what we offer in the Gardeners St Helier area. We will review your request and respond as soon as we can, working with you to find an accessible solution.

Feedback and Future Development

Your feedback is essential in helping us improve the accessibility of our website and our services. We welcome comments, suggestions, and reports of issues that affect your ability to access information or communicate with Gardeners St Helier online. As we continue to develop our website, we will keep accessibility in mind so that more people in St Helier can benefit from a more inclusive and accessible gardening service.