Using this website

The National Institute for Sustainable Development wants this website to be usable by as many people as possible, including people using screen readers, people who navigate by keyboard, and people on slow or expensive mobile connections.

What has been done

• Every page can be used with a keyboard alone. A “skip to main content” link appears when you press Tab, and the focused element is always visibly outlined.
• Text and background colours have been chosen to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA contrast standard for body text.
• Photographs carry descriptive alternative text, which staff enter when the picture is uploaded.
• Pages use real headings in a sensible order, so a screen reader can move through a page by structure.
• Forms have labels attached to their fields, explain what is required, and report errors in words rather than only with colour.
• Text can be enlarged in the browser without the layout breaking, and the site works at phone width without sideways scrolling.
• Animation is minimal, and is switched off entirely for anyone whose system asks for reduced motion.
• Images are compressed and served in modern formats, so that pages load on a slow connection.

Known limitations

• Some documents in the publications library are scans of printed or signed records. These cannot be read by a screen reader. If you need the contents of one of these documents in an accessible form, contact us and we will provide it.
• Where a map is embedded, it is provided by a third party and we do not control its accessibility. The office address is always given as text alongside it.

Reporting a problem

If something on this website is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us through the contact page or by email to williamc@thenationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment.org. Describe the page and what happened, and we will fix it or give you the information another way.