Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement for Bowman Club

This is an accessibility statement from Bowman Club.

Measures to support accessibility

Bowman Club takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Bowman Club:

• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Bowman Club is partially conformant with WCAG 2.0 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Additional accessibility considerations

Some buttons in the website provide links to meeting registration or abstract submission but may not be recognised as such when using keyboard only reader applications. All information is available via the main menu.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Bowman Club. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Bowman Club:

• Phone: +44 7950 273790

• E-mail: louise@bowmanclub.co.uk

• Postal Address: 5 St Helen's Villa, 145 New Church Road, BN3 4DB, UK

We try to respond to feedback within 24 hours.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Bowman Club is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

• The Bowman Club website is built in WIX. As such, the WIX platform is equipped with built-in advanced accessibility features, most of which are automatically activated on the site. In addition to colour contrasting, accessibility includes:

  • Smart focus ring: Visual indicators support keyboard users as they navigate through the website. Smart focus rings automatically appear when keyboards are used. These rings are dual-colored and always visible, regardless of a website’s background colour.

  • Skip to Main Content enabled: Keyboard users can skip directly to the main content of each page.

  • Automatic DOM Order: Autoactivated automatic DOM (document object model) features will arrange page elements to reflect the visual order defined, ensuring that visitors who rely on keyboard or screen readers can navigate the website with ease.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Bowman Club relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Bowman Club, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Bowman Club:

1. Possible limitation: Full page reading on small devices. The Bowman Club website is optimised for computer and mobile viewing but some elements may flow off the screen (no overlap issues) on smaller devices or screens at +200% zoom.

2. A PDF of the whole site's content can be provided upon request. Those elements such as registration and abstract submission can always be accessed through the main menu.

3. Please use the 'contact us' page if you encounter an issue.  

Assessment approach

Bowman Club assessed the accessibility of Bowman Club by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation

• WIX site accessibility compliance testing

Date

This statement was created on 14 September 2022 using the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) international standards for the Web (W3C Accessibility).