Accessibility

The site is built from plain HTML pages with a small amount of script. It reflows on narrow screens, keeps working when text is enlarged, and works with reader modes and browser translation.

The borough selector

The selector is a group of five radio buttons with a visible label, so it can be operated with the Tab and arrow keys. All five boroughs' results are already in the page; choosing a borough simply shows its result, and the result area is announced politely by screen readers. Every result is also summarised in text on the selector's own page, so nothing depends on the script.

The tidal header

The flowing lines behind the home page heading are drawn on a canvas, marked as decorative and hidden from screen readers. They pause when the page is off screen or the tab is hidden. If your device asks for reduced motion, they are drawn once and do not move.

Comparison bars

Each bar chart is a list. Every bar has the borough's name and its value written beside it, and the England and Wales reference is given in words under the chart, so the length and colour of a bar are never the only way to read it.

Tables

Tables have captions naming their sources and header cells for rows and columns. Wide tables sit in a labelled region that can be reached with the Tab key and scrolled sideways with the arrow keys.

Navigation and the form

The menus open with the keyboard and mark the current page for screen readers. Every field in the quote form has a visible label, and the browser's own checks name any field that needs attention before sending.

Known limits

The house diagram is an image with a full text description, and its points are also made in the page text. Some of the government datasets we link to are spreadsheets that may be harder to use with assistive technology than this site.

Reporting a problem

If part of the site does not work for you, use the form on the contact page and tell us the page and what happened. We reply by email and fix what we can.