Accessibility statement for Team London

This site has been built to be as accessible as possible and tested against WCAG 2.1 AA. There are some areas which are not yet fully accessible:

• some images do not yet an appropriate text alternative, so people using screen reader software may find some links are repetitive or verbose.
• some headings are nested at the wrong level and some text elements that should be headings are not. Some form input elements do not have explicitly associated text labels, and some form components use the ‘fieldset’ element inappropriately. On the Opportunity pages, there is a minor structural issue with the calendar tool. These may cause some minor usability issues for screen reader software users.
• on the Search – Find a volunteering role page, the text warning that filters are applied automatically comes in the wrong place in the reading order, which may have an impact on screen reader software users.
• on the Find volunteers page, one text element does not have sufficient contrast, so it may be hard to read for people with low vision.
• when viewing The Finding Volunteers page at 400% zoom in Chrome, horizontal scroll is needed, some text is cropped and some text appears in narrow columns, making it hard to read.

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

Non compliance with the accessibility regulations

• a small number of images do not have an appropriate text alternative. Some people using screen reader software may find that some links are repetitive or too verbose (WCAG 2.1 Level A criterion 1.1.1 - non text content). We have been ensuring staff are trained up to do this so that as we publish new content our use of images meets accessibility standards. Our site now also enforces the addition of alt text.
• some headings are nested at the wrong level and some text elements that should be headings are not. Some form input elements do not have explicitly associated text labels, and some form components use the ‘fieldset’ element inappropriately. On the Opportunity pages, there is a minor structural issue with the calendar tool. These may cause some minor usability issues for screen reader software users. (WCAG 2.1 Level A criterion 1.3.1 – info and relationships). 
• on the Search – Find a volunteering role page, the text warning that filters are applied automatically comes in the wrong place in the reading order (WCAG 2.1 Level A criterion 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions). 
• on the Find volunteers page, one text element does not have sufficient contrast, so it may be hard to read for people with low vision (WCAG 2.1 Level AA criterion 1.4.3 Colour Contrast). 
• when viewing The Finding Volunteers page at 400% zoom in Chrome, horizontal scroll is needed, some text is cropped and some text appears in narrow columns, making it hard to read (WCAG 2.1 AA criterion 1.4.10 - reflow).

We plan to have fixed all the listed issues by the end of April 2023.

Disproportionate burden

N/A - we are planning to fix all the issues we have so far identified in testing.

This website was upgraded and relaunched in May 2022. It was built to comply with WCAG 2.1 AA and was tested against this throughout the build. This means that rather than specifying a sample of pages to test, all the new content types (templates) and key user journeys were tested as they were developed. It was last retested in April 2022.

All accessibility testing was done by Test Partners, who also carried out an expert review across different assistive technologies.

We tested:

• The new Team London (volunteering) site, available at /programmes-strategies/volunteering/search/

Note: this was formerly a microsite that was redeveloped in 2019 to sit on our existing site.

Read the full accessibility test report.