Accessibility statement

Our commitment

Accessibility Matters Ireland is committed to making this website usable by as many people as possible, including people who use assistive technologies or alternative input methods.

We aim to ensure that users can perceive, operate and understand the website, and that its content remains robust across browsers, devices and assistive technologies.

A voluntary statement

Accessibility Matters Ireland is a private business, not a public sector body. This website is therefore not governed by the European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020, which apply to public sector organisations.

We publish this statement, and hold our own site to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, by choice. Accessibility is our profession, and it would make little sense to advise others on accessible digital content without applying the same standards to ourselves.

The framework our clients work within

Because most of the organisations we work with do have legal accessibility obligations, we set out the relevant framework here for context. This is the environment our clients operate in – not the legal basis for this particular website.

Two regimes are most relevant in Ireland:

• Public sector bodies are covered by the European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020 – S.I. No. 358/2020 – which transpose the EU Web Accessibility Directive. These require websites, mobile apps and many document formats to meet the EN 301 549 standard, broadly equivalent to WCAG. The National Disability Authority is the monitoring body.
• Certain private-sector products and services are covered by the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023 – S.I. No. 636/2023 – which transpose the European Accessibility Act, supervised by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Both regimes are built on the same four principles. Content should be:

• Perceivable – information and interface components are presented in ways users can perceive.
• Operable – interface components and navigation are usable, including without a mouse.
• Understandable – information and operation are clear and predictable.
• Robust – content can be interpreted reliably by browsers and assistive technologies.

Helping organisations understand which regime applies to them, and what it requires of their published documents, is part of what we do.

Compliance status

Designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA – formal assessment pending

This website has been designed and built to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We do not describe it as fully conformant, because a documented manual and technical assessment of the deployed site has not yet been completed. This statement will be updated once that assessment is done.

Non-accessible content

No specific accessibility problems are currently listed. This section will be updated after the full assessment, and whenever a new issue is identified or resolved.

If any information on this site is not available in a format you can use, please contact us and we will provide an accessible alternative.

How this statement was prepared

Date published

[Add the date you publish the deployed site]

Assessment method

Initial design and code review. A full pre-launch assessment of the deployed site – automated, manual and assistive-technology testing – remains to be completed.

Scope reviewed

Page templates, navigation, headings, links, forms, keyboard operation, focus visibility, colour contrast, text resizing and responsive reflow.

Feedback and contact

If you find an accessibility problem, cannot access part of this website, or need information in another format, please tell us. We take accessibility feedback seriously and aim to respond within one business day.

You can reach us through the project enquiry form. When reporting an issue, it helps to include the address of the affected page, a description of the problem, and the browser or assistive technology you were using where relevant.