Policies
Accessibility Statement
The coalition’s commitment to a website every person can use — the standard it builds to, how it tests, and how to report a barrier.
A coalition whose mandate is that prosperity should not depend on where a person was born cannot run a website whose usability depends on how a person reads, sees, hears, or moves. This site is designed, built, and tested to be usable by everyone, including people using screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, magnification, and reduced-motion settings.
The standard we build to
The site targets conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA across all pages and interactive features.
That target is engineered in, not audited on afterwards: semantic HTML landmarks on every page, a visible focus indicator on every interactive element, text alternatives on informative imagery, colour contrast checked against AA thresholds in both directions of the palette, and form fields with programmatically associated labels and error messages.
Motion and animation
The site uses motion to clarify structure — reveals, transitions, and the animated data exhibits. Every animation on the site respects the prefers-reduced-motion setting.
Visitors who enable reduced motion in their operating system receive the full content of every page with animations suppressed: content appears immediately, marquees stand still, and count-up figures render at their final value. No information on this site is carried by motion alone.
Keyboard and assistive technology
Every feature of the site — the menus, the search overlay, the data explorers, the application forms, the PIN-gated downloads — operates fully from a keyboard, in a logical order, with no traps.
- Skip link to main content on every page.
- Menus and overlays close on Escape and return focus to their trigger.
- Charts carry text alternatives; data tables underlie visual exhibits where practical.
- Forms announce validation errors to screen readers and never rely on colour alone.
Known limitations
Accessibility is a discipline, not a destination, and the coalition reports its gaps rather than hiding them.
Some archival PDF publications produced before the current standards were adopted have not yet been remediated to full tagging; the publications desk remediates on request within ten business days. Third-party embedded content may not meet the same standard as coalition-built pages, and the coalition weighs accessibility in every procurement of such content.
Testing and review
The site is tested with automated accessibility tooling on every release and with manual keyboard and screen-reader passes on every significant new feature.
The accessibility standard is owned by the digital team and reviewed annually against the current version of WCAG. Regressions found in testing are treated as defects, not enhancements — they block release.
Report a barrier
Anyone who encounters a barrier on this site is asked to report it through the contact page, with the page address and the assistive technology in use if known.
Reports are acknowledged within two business days and answered with a fix or a workaround within ten. A barrier one visitor reports is a barrier every similar visitor faces; reporting it is a service to all of them, and the coalition treats it that way.
This statement is reviewed annually. It was last updated in January 2026, against WCAG 2.2.
Engagement