Accessibility Statement

We want everyone to be able to access the content on this web site, in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (AHRC Act). Our web content is designed to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible and user-friendly. The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA, and AAA). We have chosen level AA as the goal for Polmanarkivet’s website. Read about the guidelines.

We conducted an accessibility audit with Accessibility Checker and WAVE to identify web accessibility issues that do not meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Although many of the critical errors have been corrected, there are still WCAG 2.1 criteria to work through. Human evaluation is also important because no tool alone can determine if a site meets accessibility standards. We’re continuing to learn and determined to making this site as accessible as possible. 

At a minimum, to ensure we meet most of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, this web site:

• Uses headings to structure content
• Uses descriptive link text
• Adds image alt text for all images
• Adds labels and titles to forms
• Includes skip links
• Includes captions and text transcripts for audio files
• Enables most of the site to be navigated using a keyboard
• Enables most of the site to be navigated using speech recognition software
• Enables listening to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
• Includes multiple contact options
• Includes content written in simple language

Polmanarkivet is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (AHRC Act).

Compliance status

Polmanarkivet websites are partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.

The following list provides details of the content which is currently non-accessible. We are currently reviewing all of our content and this list will be updated as more information becomes available.

There are four critical issues from our Accessibility Checker audit:

• Ensures the contrast between foreground and background colours meets WCAG 2 AA minimum contrast ratio thresholds
• Ensures the order of headings is semantically correct
• Ensures <img> elements have alternate text or a role of none or presentation
• Ensures links have discernible text

In addition, there are 36 contrast errors from the WAVE audit. This is a result of our main gold branding colour failing the WCAG AA contrast ratio for small text. We are working to improve the contrast ratio by meeting a 4.5:1 colour ratio.

Disproportionate burden

There is some content that we have assessed as a disproportionate burden due to our limited resources. This means that making some parts of the website complaint is likely to have a significant impact on our ability to function. This includes:

Historic content

There are no plans to update all historic content because this would create a disproportionate burden. On request, we may be able to provide information in alternative formats.

PDFs and other documents

Some older PDFs and Microsoft Office documents that you can view from our websites do not meet accessibility standards and there are no plans to update them.

Third party content

We use a number of third-party services to provide content on polmanarkivet.com. The accessibility features of these services are not under our control and we are not responsible for their implementation. However, we try to make them accessible where we can. Some of these services include:

• Ghost (membership platform)
• CookieYes (cookie management platform)
• YouTube (video content)
• Google Maps (interactive maps)
• Letterbird (contact forms)
• Shorthand (digital stories platform)

As noted above, Polmanarkivet is committed to making this web site usable to all people by meeting or or exceeding the requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 Level AA . We want to make our content accessible to everyone. However, this is an ongoing project that will require more education, review, and resourcing.

Here’s what we’re doing to improve accessibility:

• Ensuring that all new content and services are designed to the highest WCAG standards possible.
• Continuing to test our new designs and products with a broad and diverse range of audiences.
• Periodic review of content with WAVE or other web accessibility evaluation tools.
• Continuing education about web accessibility, plain language, inclusion, and disability.

If you have any issues with accessing this web site, or you have any feedback about the accessibility of our web site, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’ll do our best to support you. We aim to get back to all enquiries within 7 days.

Enquiries and Information

If you need information on this website in a different format such as accessible PDF, large print, or audio recording:

Email: hej@polmanarkivet.com
Contact Form: alternatively, send us a message through our contact form.

Please provide us with:

• The web address (URL) of the content you need
• The format you need it in
• Your name and email address

Reporting Web Accessibility Problems

Do you have problems understanding, finding, or navigating the website of Polmanarkivet? Please get in touch and we’ll take steps to investigate the issue.

Email: hej@polmanarkivet.com
Contact Form: alternatively, send us a message through our contact form.

Please provide us with:

• The web address (URL) of the content with the accessibility issue
• Your name and email address (if you require a response)