Accessibility

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. Accessibility is treated as part of how the site is built rather than an afterthought, and we keep working to improve it.

Across the site we have aimed for:

• Clear, structured headings, one main heading per page, and meaningful, descriptive link text.
• Content that is visible by default. Nothing on this site is hidden until an animation runs: scroll effects are added to content that is already readable, so the page stays complete if JavaScript is blocked, fails, or has not finished loading.
• Keyboard access to navigation and interactive elements, with a visible focus outline that is never removed.
• Colour contrast intended to meet AA for body text, and text that reflows without loss on smaller screens.
• Text alternatives for images that carry meaning; decorative images and video are hidden from assistive technology rather than described unhelpfully.
• Form fields that are labelled, marked as required in a way assistive technology can read, and that report errors in text next to the field rather than by colour alone.

Motion on this site is restrained and decorative. It is never required to understand the content. If your device is set to reduce motion, animations are turned off automatically and the homepage video is replaced with a still image rather than merely hidden.

The same applies to printing: a printed page shows the full content, not the state an animation happened to be in.

Last reviewed 30 September 2026, after the site was redesigned. That review covered every page on this site, at desktop and phone widths, and checked:

• Automated checks against WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules (axe-core) on every page, with no failures outstanding.
• That each page renders completely with JavaScript disabled.
• That each page renders completely with reduced motion enabled.
• Heading structure and landmark regions on every page: one main heading, and one header, main and footer.
• Keyboard-only use of the header and its menus (opening, moving through and closing each panel), the skip link, the Newsroom search and pages, the service tabs, and the enquiry form's fields, with visible focus throughout.

We have not yet commissioned an independent WCAG 2.2 AA audit, and automated checking alone cannot confirm conformance. Until that audit is done, this statement describes our own testing rather than a certified result.

Some image-led sections carry meaning partly through composition, and any third-party or downloadable content may not yet meet every criterion. We are addressing these as the site develops.

If you have difficulty using any part of this site, please tell us. We want to know, and we will help. Contact us at privacy@strattonem.com, or through our contact page, describing the page and the problem.

We aim to respond promptly and to put accessibility issues right wherever we can. If you need information from this site in another format, ask and we will arrange it.