Accessibility

builduk.club is meant to be readable by anyone, on anything. This page says what the site does about that, what the round buttons at the bottom-left do, and how to tell us when something is in the way.

The buttons at the bottom-left

Two round buttons sit at the bottom-left of every page.

The first opens the accessibility panel (open it now). It offers bigger or smaller text, wider line spacing, a plainer font, highlighted links, high contrast, greyscale, hidden images, paused animation, a bigger focus outline, left-aligned text, a reading mask that follows your pointer, and a list of the headings on the page so you can jump about. Every choice is a button you can press again to turn off, and Reset all clears the lot.

The second switches the page between paper and navy.

Your choices are saved in your own browser’s local storage and nowhere else. Nothing is sent to us, no cookie is set, and nothing is loaded from any other company: the panel is a few hundred lines of our own code. The footer’s “no tracking, no cookies” promise still holds with every option on.

The panel needs JavaScript. Without it the site still works in full: every page is plain HTML, every recording has a download link, and your browser’s own zoom and reader mode work as they always do.

What the site already does

• Every page is server-rendered HTML with headings in order, a skip link, and landmarks a screen reader can move between.
• Text and layout scale with your browser’s zoom and text-size settings.
• Colour is never the only carrier of meaning; the charts on the numbers pages carry their figures in text too.
• The voice notes are published with transcripts. The album’s lyrics are on the page beside each recording, and the videos carry the words as captions.
• Nothing moves on its own, and nothing autoplays.

Where it falls short

• The PDFs (the lyric booklet, the costed papers’ sources) are documents other people made and are not all tagged for screen readers. The same content is on the page in HTML wherever we could put it there.
• The interactive models and the parish map are enhancements of pages that work without them, but the interactive versions themselves are best used with a pointer.

Tell us

If something on this site does not work for you, say so through the challenge form — mark it “accessibility” and say which page and what happened. It is read by the person who built the site, and fixing it is a build task, not a ticket.