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How we build the school

Accessibility

Every door at St Elowen’s should open the same way for everyone. Here is what that means, in plain words, and what to do if a door will not open for you.

What we try to do

You should be able to visit this whole school without a mouse, without seeing the pictures, and without hearing anything at all, and still find your way about. That is what we build towards on every page, not just some of them.

  • Every page can be used with a keyboard alone, and you can always see where you are.
  • A screen reader can read every page in a sensible order, from the top down, and every picture that matters has words describing it.
  • You can make the writing as big as you like in your own browser, and the page will still make sense.
  • Nothing here relies on colour alone to tell you something: there is always a word or a shape as well.
  • If moving pictures do not suit you, tell your device, and this site will keep still.
  • There is always a quick way to skip past the menu, straight to the page itself.
  • The “Forget everything about me” button clears every trace of your visit from this device, for anybody who would rather it did.

If something does not work

If you ever find a page that will not work with your keyboard, your screen reader, or your own settings, we would like to know, and we will put it right.

Tell us

The formal bit

The standard we build to

This site is built to meet Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, the internationally recognised standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the one most websites are measured against. We are not a public body and are not legally required to publish this statement, but we think a school, even an invented one, should hold itself to the standard anyway.

Standard
WCAG 2.2, Level AA
Technology
Plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript. No framework, and nothing built in a way that gets in the way of assistive technology.
How we check
By hand, on every new page: keyboard-only navigation, a screen reader, and the browser’s own zoom, before anything is published.
Last reviewed
July 2026