What are we doing?
We want everyone who visits the Pause website to feel welcome, to be able to find the information they need and to find the experience rewarding.
To help us make this website a positive place for everyone, we’ve been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and user friendly for everyone.
The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level A as the target for our website.
How are we doing?
We’ve worked hard on this website and believe we’ve achieved our goal of Level A accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this, but if you do find any problems, please contact our national team.
Recite Me Assistive Technology
To provide additional support to aid a more inclusive user experience we provide the Recite Me assistive technology tool. This Toolbar enables all website visitors to customise their experience through a range of options to suit their online accessibility and language needs.
When the toolbar is activated, users can:
- Listen to the website using text-to-speech functionality
- Customise background and text colours
- Modify the font, line height or spacing of text
- Zoom in up to 200% without text spilling off the screen
- Navigate the website using just a keyboard
- Translate the website into a different language
- Download mp3 files of web page text
- View website pages in text-only mode
Inclusive and anti-oppressive language
Language can be harmful if not used carefully. Pause chooses to use language that includes, rather than excludes people, and respects the terms individuals choose for themselves.
We recognise that language develops and changes. We have regular discussions about language and take time to research and discuss alternatives. For example, we currently use the term ‘people from Black and Brown communities’. This is the form of words that the anti-racism group at Pause – which includes people from those communities – has agreed on, but we keep inclusive language under review.
