Accessibility: website and social media content
We aim to ensure that all of our digital resources are informative and entertaining to use as well as being accessible. Where we’ve missed a trick or could do a better job – please contact the diocesan office and let us know!
Accessibility is about our difference – and depends on how a person’s perception of reality affects the way they perceive information on any web page. This can be down to disability such as blindness, neurodiversity and/or cognitive differences of all sorts including colour blindness, ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism, Dementia, or even just character type – people with different Myers-Briggs will use websites very differently! So making any web page accessible involves hundreds of factors such as how colours contrast, how information is laid out, or how fonts are used. As far as possible, this website has been built with architecture intent on being screenreader, mobile and diverse human -friendly. If you have specific accessibility needs or would like to offer your feedback on any part of our web content (including social media), we’d love to hear from you.
To keep our sites up with developments in digital comms, we test regularly via the W3C-recommended Webaim tools, as well as participating in UX/UI workshops around the South West. Though not all content on this website is CC-licensed, we do share back and are actively involved in various development communities including Accessible Bristol, regional UX devs, the WordPress dev community & WCLDN, W3C networks and stack overflow.
We always work to improve ‘Alt tagging’ on imagery on our websites, and test systems to try and keep them as open as possible. When we create a video, we add subtitles; please do request specific subtitling if it isn’t yet available.
Printed content
We often use PDF format as font sizes can be manipulated by the user to aid legibility. Where mailings are hardcopy printed, we offer large-print versions and digital copies to aid accessibility wherever possible. Please contact the diocesan office to request specific content.
