Accessibility statement | Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI)

Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to the Tony Blair Institute website and all content within it, including PDFs.

This website is run by the Tony Blair Institute. As a progressive, inclusive organisation, we want as everyone to be able to access our website. For example, that means users should be able to:

Change colours, contrast levels and fonts
Zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We have also made the website text as simple as possible to understand. AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

How accessible this website is

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible, including:

Users cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
There are some examples of images of text (in particular, certain graphs that are SVGs or JPEGs)
Some of our graphs and visualisations are not fully accessible by screen readers
Some of our graphs and visualisations use colour exclusively to convey meaning
Some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
Some of our images do not have an alt description
Videos do not have captions
The colour contrast in some of the elements does not meet the WCAG2.1 AA minimum requirements

Feedback and contact information

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact the web team at [email protected]

If you need information on this website in a different format such as accessible PDF or large print, please contact us via email at [email protected]

We’ll consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We strive to make our website accessible to everybody and therefore constantly review and improve our pages.

We know there are some specific things to improve:

Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (Non-text content).
Some videos do not have captions. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.2 (Captions [pre-recorded]).
There are no controls for autoplaying videos (The user is not able to control pause the auto-playing video). This Fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion Success Criterion 2.2.2 (Pause, Stop, Hide).
The text colour contrast in some areas falls below the WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast).
Some of our graphs and visualisations use colour exclusively to convey meaning. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.1 (Use of colour).
Some of our images do not have an alt description. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (Non-text context).
When zooming in at 200%, some of the text overspills the screen (for example, the homepage hero copy). This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4 (Resize Text).
The font size in some of the text has fixed values. This also fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4 (Resize text).
The line height in some of the text is a fixed value. This fails WCAT 2.1 success criterion 1.4.8 (Visual presentation).
In addition to this, the line height in some of the text is below the minimum required value to comply with AA standards. This also fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.8 (Visual presentation).
There are issues with headings and labels, such as the structure not being correct in some cases (e.g, a h1 followed by a h4), some pages having no headings, or the page not starting with a h1. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.6 (Headings and labels).
The menu is not easily navigable using a keyboard only. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.1.1 (Keyboard).
Some buttons have been coded inside a link (There should not be a button inside the link). This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.4 (Link Purpose [In context]).
There are a number of screen reader readability issues, such as the lack of consistency with focus styles, the inability to use the share button for users navigating with a screen reader or keyboard only.

We will be working to improve on all the identified issues as we continue to iterate the website over the coming months.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in April 2023. A website test was carried out in February 2023 by the team at the Tony Blair Institute. We used this approach to decide on a sample of pages to test:

Global elements (such as header, footer, menus).
Homepage.
Landing pages (we have a number of landing pages, of which we tested a subsection).
Article pages (they follow a template, so we looked at the components that can be used within these templates).

A further Accessibility Audit in April 2023 tested the following pages representative of the majority of site content: