Accessibility Statement – ABCP
This accessibility statement applies to ebooks.africanbookscollective.com
This website is run by African Books Collective. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you 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’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
My Computer My Way has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
How accessible this website is
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible. You can see a full list of any issues we currently know about in the Non-accessible content section of this statement.
Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:
We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 days.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
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, contact: Sally via email at sally.brooking@africanbookscollective.com, detailing the concern you have and the time and page on which you noticed the issue.
Enforcement procedure
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
Technical information about this website’s accessibility
African Books Collective is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Compliance status
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.
Non-accessible content
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons:
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
- The carousel on the welcome page includes images of text without alternatives. This fails WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content (A).
- There are various heading related issues across pages including multiple h1s, pages with no heading structure and non-sequential headings. Various control elements, lists, and some table contents are not used for their correct relational purposes. Account changes do not identify which fields are required fields. This fails WCAG 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (A).
- Across many pages on the website, links are only differentiated from surrounding text by colour alone. This fails WCAG 1.4.1 Use of Color (A).
- The online reader view introduces a number of readability and clipping problems at higher magnifications. This fails WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow (AA).
- Several tab components such as on the title pages are not keyboard accessible. The ratings controls are not keyboard accessible. Many controls within the online reader view are not keyboard accessible. This fails WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard (A).
- The carousel on the welcome page does not have controls to pause or stop the auto scrolling. This fails WCAG 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide (A).
- The cookie banner is presented as the last element on the page which may block or slow progress for users needing to move fully through a page to make cookie selections. This fails WCAG 2.4.3 Focus Order (A).
- There are a few instances of focus indication issues, where some control elements do not receive focus. Where many text elements do receive focus, they may be clipped by the focus boundary. This fails WCAG 2.4.7 Focus Visible (AA).
- When using account controls such as changing passwords, or on other actions such as saving titles to new lists, there are no audio cues that there has been an error. For saving titles to lists, there are also no visible cues. This fails WCAG 3.3.1 Error Identification (A).
If you find an issue that we have yet to identify, please contact us using one of the routes described in the ‘Reporting accessibility problems with this website’ section of this statement.
Disproportionate burden
At this time, we have made no claims of disproportionate burden.
Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations
3rd party content
Some of our services include third-party content which we have no control over, such as documents that are sent to us and uploaded as part of this service. The accessibility regulations do not require us to manage these kinds of content, but if you have a problem with any of the content hosted on this website, please contact us using the methods above, and we will try to help.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
- Working through the issues raised on the audit
- Continuing to review our online reader
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 12/10/2023. It was last reviewed on 13/09/2024.
This website was last reviewed on 24/07/2024. The test was carried out by All Able Ltd.
A representative sample of pages of the website were tested. Testing was composed of a mixture of manual, semi-automated and assistive technology testing.