Accessibility statement

Rightlander is committed to making its website accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of disability, assistive technology, or method of access. We want the site to be usable by keyboard, screen reader, voice navigation and other adaptive tools without loss of functionality or content.

We approach accessibility as an ongoing discipline rather than a one-time audit. New content and features are reviewed against accessibility criteria before publication, and we address reported issues as a priority.

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities, covering areas including:

• Perceivable – content and interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive, including text alternatives for non-text content and sufficient colour contrast.
• Operable – all functionality must be accessible via keyboard. Navigation provides mechanisms to help users find content and determine where they are. No content causes seizures or physical reactions.
• Understandable – text content is readable and understandable. Pages appear and operate in predictable ways. Users are helped to avoid and correct mistakes.
• Robust – content is sufficiently robust to be interpreted by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

WCAG 2.1 AA is our target, not a claim of full compliance. We do not conduct independent formal audits on a defined schedule. We test against WCAG criteria during development and review.

We are aware of the following limitations and are working to address them:

• Some older news articles published before 2023 may include images without alternative text descriptions. We are working through these retrospectively.
• Embedded third-party widgets, including live chat and analytics tools, may not fully meet WCAG 2.1 AA. We aim to minimise any impact by not embedding functionality that is critical to core tasks.
• PDF documents linked from the site (such as the DPA) may not be fully accessible. Where possible we provide equivalent HTML versions of key content. If you need a document in an alternative format, please contact us.
• Some data tables in news articles may lack programmatic column headers. We are standardising our editorial template to prevent new instances.

We cannot guarantee that third-party content embedded on the site meets WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

If you experience a barrier on our website that this statement does not mention, or if you need content in an alternative format, please get in touch. We take all accessibility feedback seriously and aim to respond within five business days.

Contact us at: [email protected]

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Equality and Human Rights Commission (Great Britain) or the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.