Last updated: 14 July 2026
Our commitment
We want our website to be usable by as many people as possible, whatever their circumstances or abilities. We are a small charity run by volunteers, and we take this seriously.
We aim to work towards the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at level AA. These are the internationally recognised standards for making web content accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities, including blind and partially sighted people, people with motor impairments, and people with cognitive or learning difficulties.
We are honest about where we are. We have taken practical steps to improve accessibility, but we cannot claim our website is perfect, and we are continuing to improve it.
The accessibility toolbar
Our website includes an accessibility toolbar called Readabler. You will find it as a button on every page. Opening it lets you adjust how the site looks and behaves to suit you.
What the toolbar can do:
- Text adjustments — increase or decrease the text size, change the typeface, and adjust line height, letter spacing and alignment to make text easier to read.
- Colour adjustments — switch between light, dark, inverted, high-contrast and monochrome colour schemes, and adjust brightness, contrast and saturation.
- Stop animations — turn off videos, animated GIFs and flashing or blinking effects, which can be a problem for people with epilepsy or vestibular disorders.
- Highlighting — emphasise links and headings, or highlight whatever you are hovering over or have selected with the keyboard.
- Cursor adjustments — use a larger, higher-contrast cursor to make it easier to see and follow.
- Reading aids — a magnifier that enlarges text as you move over it, and a reading guide to help you keep your place.
- Read aloud — have text on the page read out to you in a natural-sounding voice.
- Dictionary — look up the meaning of unfamiliar words, initials or phrases without leaving the page.
- Ready-made profiles — one-click settings designed for people with epilepsy, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities and ADHD, and for screen-reader users.
Your settings are remembered. If you change a setting, it is saved on your own device so the site looks the way you want it on your next visit.
Two features involve other companies. The “read aloud” feature uses Google’s text-to-speech service to create the audio, which means the text being read is sent to Google. The dictionary feature looks words up on Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Neither runs unless you choose to use it. Our Privacy Policy explains this in more detail.
What the toolbar does not do
We want to be clear about this, because some accessibility tools are marketed in ways that overpromise.
The Readabler toolbar adds tools on top of our website. It does not rewrite our website’s underlying code, it does not automatically fix accessibility problems, and installing it does not by itself make our site compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA. It is a helpful aid, not a guarantee.
Building genuinely accessible pages, clear headings, proper labels on forms, meaningful descriptions for images, sufficient colour contrast, and pages that work with a keyboard alone, is our responsibility, and it is ongoing work.
Screen readers and keyboard use
We aim for our pages to work with screen-reading software such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack, and to be fully operable using a keyboard alone, without a mouse.
If you find a page, form or button that does not work properly with your screen reader or keyboard, please tell us. Reports from people who actually use these tools are the most useful thing we receive.
Tell us about a problem
We are not aware of any parts of our website that cannot be accessed, but we know that does not mean there are none. If you find something on our website you cannot use, or if you have an idea for how we could improve it, please contact us:
Email: info@buntingfordmensshed.org.uk
Please tell us the page address and, if you can, what you were trying to do and what happened. We will do our best to respond within 10 working days and to put things right.
If you need information from our website in a different format, such as large print, plain text, or read out over the telephone, please contact us and we will do what we can to help.
Enforcement
Buntingford Men’s Shed has obligations under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments so that disabled people are not put at a substantial disadvantage.
If you contact us with a complaint about accessibility and you are not happy with our response, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) at equalityadvisoryservice.com.