Accessibility on this site

Different Strokes Glasgow supports younger stroke survivors, so accessibility isn’t an afterthought here — it’s the point. We’ve built and tested this site with the people who use it in mind, including those living with fatigue, weakness or paralysis on one side, problems with vision, and aphasia or other changes to language and reading.

What we’ve done

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. In practice, that means:

• You can use the whole site with a keyboard. Every link, button and form can be reached and operated without a mouse, and there’s a clear, visible outline showing where you are on the page.
• It works with screen readers. Pages use proper headings and landmarks so a screen reader can announce the structure, images carry text descriptions, and links describe where they go rather than just saying “click here”.
• Text is readable and resizable. We use generous text sizes and spacing, and the layout reflows cleanly if you zoom in or use a smaller screen, without text being cut off or overlapping.
• Colours have strong contrast. Text and important controls are designed to stand out clearly against their background, and we don’t rely on colour alone to get a point across.
• We respect reduced-motion settings. If your device is set to reduce motion, we turn off non-essential animation and movement.
• Forms are clear and forgiving. Every field has a visible label, and if something goes wrong we explain what to fix in plain words.
• Nothing surprising happens. There’s no audio or video that plays on its own, and no flashing content.
• Maps load only when you ask. Embedded maps stay off until you choose to load one, so the page stays light and you stay in control of what third-party content runs.

Where we know we can do better

Accessibility is never “finished”. We test as we build, but we’re a small group of volunteers and we won’t have caught everything — particularly in content like rich-text descriptions or any documents we link to. If you hit a barrier, please tell us; it genuinely helps us fix things.

Tell us if something isn’t working

If you find any part of this site hard to use, or you need information from it in a different format — larger text, plain text, or another format that suits you — please get in touch and we’ll do our best to help:

• Please use our contact us form.
• Phone us on 07546 838 934

It helps us if you can tell us the page you were on and what went wrong, but don’t worry if that’s difficult — just let us know in whatever way is easiest for you.

Getting help with your own device

Your computer, phone or tablet has built-in tools that can make any website easier to use — larger text, magnification, colour and contrast changes, and reading the screen aloud. AbilityNet’s “My Computer My Way” has free, step-by-step guides for setting these up.

Changes to this statement

We’ll update this page as we improve the site or when we learn about something that needs fixing. The date it was last updated is shown at the foot of the page.