Kingstanding.org is run by Kingstanding Together, a volunteer community association. We want as many people as possible to be able to use it — including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard, voice control or magnification, and people who find reading or technology difficult.
What you should be able to do
- zoom in up to 400% without text spilling off the screen;
- get around the whole site using just a keyboard, starting with a “Skip to content” link;
- use a screen reader — every page has one main heading, labelled regions and described images;
- switch between light and dark colours using the moon or sun button at the top of every page;
- stop movement: pages are completely still if your device is set to reduce motion, and the “Pause animations” button at the bottom of every page stops it for this site;
- take the Pride in Place residents’ survey in six languages, on paper or in large print;
- read a transcript of our oral-history recordings, and a description of the films we show;
- find every place on our map in a plain list below it;
- create an account, comment, reply, upvote, like and share photos using a keyboard or a screen reader — every box is labelled, problems are read out, and comment windows close with the Escape key.
How accessible this website is
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. We believe most of the site does, but we know it is not yet fully compliant — the problems we know about are listed below.
Problems we know about
- Map pins. Some numbered pins on the maps are small and close together, especially around Kingstanding Circle. On the map page the list of places below the map does the same job with large buttons.
- Long pages. The heritage archive shows every photograph on one long page. Use the section links at the top, or search the site.
- Films from other websites. We show a British Pathé film through YouTube. We describe what it shows on the page, but we cannot add captions to it ourselves.
- Photos shared by the public. When someone shares a photo, its title is used as the description until a volunteer adds a fuller one, so some shared photos are only briefly described.
- The anti-spam check when you create an account. This comes from Cloudflare. If it doesn’t work for you, contact us and we will help.
- Old documents. Some historic maps and photographs are pictures of text. We describe them, but not every word on an old map is written out.
Tell us about a problem
If something on this website doesn’t work for you, or you need information in a different format, please tell us using our contact form. Say which page it was and what happened, and a volunteer will get back to you.
If you can’t use the form, ask someone to contact us on your behalf, or speak to one of our volunteers at a Kingstanding Together event.
How we tested
In September 2026 we checked 20 pages in light mode, dark mode and on a phone with automated testing (axe), and tested by hand with a keyboard, at phone and tablet sizes from 320 pixels wide, with extra text spacing, and with motion turned on and off. The comments, accounts and photo-sharing pages were tested the same way when they were added. We will keep testing as the site changes.
This statement was last reviewed on 28 September 2026.