Accessibility statement

What this statement covers

1.1 This statement applies to the website published at gamechanger360.co.uk, including every page linked from its navigation and footer, the contact form, the newsletter sign-up and the Integrity Readiness Check.

1.2 It does not cover our product applications. 360 Academy, 360 Report, 360 Sentinel and 360 Intelligence run on their own subdomains, behind a sign-in, and are separate pieces of software with their own release cycles. They are not assessed here, and nothing in this statement should be read as a claim about them.

1.3 It does not cover websites we link to. News publications, partner organisations and social platforms are outside our control, and arriving there takes you outside the scope of this statement.

1.4 We want this website to be usable by as many people as possible. That means being able to read it at high magnification, navigate it entirely from the keyboard, use it with a screen reader, and turn off the movement if movement is a problem for you.

Conformance status

2.1 This website is partially conformant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2, level AA. Partially conformant means that most of the standard is met, but some parts are not, and section 5 sets out the parts we know about.

2.2 That status is based on a self-assessment carried out on 23 September 2026 by the team that builds and maintains the site.

2.3 The assessment was carried out internally. It has not been independently audited, and no third party has reviewed or verified the conclusions in this statement. We are not claiming full conformance, and we are not relying on anyone else's certificate.

2.4 We intend to commission an independent accessibility audit, including testing by people who use assistive technology day to day. We have not yet appointed an auditor or fixed a date, and we will say so here plainly rather than imply an audit has happened when it has not. When one is completed we will publish the result, including anything it finds that we missed.

How we assessed it

3.1 The assessment was made against the published site rather than a local development copy, so what was measured is what a visitor actually receives. It combined the following:

Automated checks, scripted against the live pages, covering page language, landmark structure, heading order, accessible names and roles for controls, form labelling, the association between a field and its error message, image alternatives, and link and button naming.
Layout testing at a viewport width of 320 CSS pixels, the width WCAG 2.2 uses for reflow, checking that no content is lost or cut off and that the page does not require scrolling in two directions.
Text spacing testing, applying the line height, letter spacing, word spacing and paragraph spacing values the standard requires a page to tolerate, then checking every page for text that is clipped or overlapped as a result.
Keyboard review: that the skip link comes first, that focus order follows the visible order, that focus is always visible, that the mobile menu removes the page behind it from the tab order rather than leaving it reachable, and that the duplicated half of each moving strip is taken out of the tab order.
Colour contrast, computed arithmetically from the design tokens in both light and dark mode, and for the deep green band that keeps its own palette in both. Body and heading text, muted and subtle text, form field boundaries, error text and the focus indicator were each checked against the surface they sit on.
Target sizes, measured on the live pages against the 24 by 24 CSS pixel minimum.
Manual inspection of the markup for the criteria that cannot be measured, including whether a control that looks like a heading is one, whether a group of filters is described as what it does, and whether a message that appears without a page change is announced.

3.2 Several criteria in WCAG 2.2 do not apply to this site. There is no sign-in, account creation or password entry anywhere on it, so accessible authentication has nothing to bite on. There is no drag-and-drop, no slider and no reordering by dragging, so dragging movements does not arise. There is no video, audio or moving image carrying information, so captions, audio description and transcripts do not arise either.

3.3 Help is offered in the same way and in the same place on every page: the same contact route in the footer, the same email address, and the same link to the contact form. Nothing you have already told us is asked for twice within the same process, and the Integrity Readiness Check keeps your answers in your own browser so that reloading the page does not make you start again.

3.4 Fixes identified by this assessment have been made. They include narrow-screen reflow, where part of the subscribe control sat outside the viewport with no way to scroll to it; long headline words being cut off once text spacing was increased; the contrast of the newsletter field boundary; and text on the Readiness Check's analysing screen being clipped by a fixed-height box on a narrow screen.

What should work

4.1 On the basis of that assessment, the following should hold across the site.

A skip link is the first thing a keyboard reaches on every page, and it moves focus to the main content.
Every page declares its language, including the page shown when an address does not exist.
Every page has one first-level heading and a heading structure that follows it in order.
The page is laid out in landmarks, so a screen reader can jump between the navigation, the main content, the newsletter band and the footer.
Every control reachable by keyboard shows a visible focus ring, in both colour modes and on the deep green band.
Every form field has a label that stays visible, and an error is announced when it appears, tied to the field it belongs to rather than floating loose.
Colour is never the only way something is communicated, and text meets the level AA contrast minimum against the surface behind it in both light and dark mode.
The site can be read at 320 CSS pixels wide, and at 400 per cent zoom, without content being lost and without scrolling sideways.
Movement can be turned off. If your operating system is set to reduce motion, the entrance animations, the drifting background light and the moving strips all stop.
Light and dark mode are both supported, and the choice is yours rather than ours: the switch in the footer overrides what your device asks for.

Known limitations

5.1 These are the things we know are not right, or that we could not verify. This list is honest rather than flattering, and it is the reason section 2 says partially conformant.

We have not tested with assistive technology. Nobody has run this site through a screen reader such as NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver, nor through screen magnification, speech input or a braille display. Where this statement says something is announced correctly, that conclusion comes from reading the markup and the accessibility tree, not from listening to it. This is the single largest gap in the assessment, and it is the main reason we want an independent audit.
The report produced by the Integrity Readiness Check is not a tagged PDF. It is generated by a third-party rendering library that does not produce a tag tree. We set the document's language and its title, which is what gives it a proper name in a reader's window and recent files, but headings, reading order, lists and the structure of the scored dimensions are not exposed to assistive technology. It therefore does not meet PDF/UA, and a screen reader will read it as a flat run of text. If you need that report in a format you can use, email us at the address in section 6 and we will send the same content in an accessible form.
A focused control can be partly covered. The header floats above the page and the filter bar on the insights index sticks below it, so a control you have just tabbed to can be partially overlapped by one of them. We believe this meets the level AA requirement, which is that a focused item is not entirely hidden, but it does not meet the stricter level AAA version, and on a short viewport it can be uncomfortable.
The moving strips of sports and stakeholders have no persistent pause button. They stop completely if you have asked your system to reduce motion, and they pause while the pointer is over them or while keyboard focus is inside them, but there is no control you can press once and leave off. We regard this as borderline against the requirement to pause, stop or hide moving content, and we would rather say so than argue it away.
Contrast over photographs has not been sampled exhaustively. Contrast was computed from the design tokens, which covers text on a flat surface. Where text sits over a photograph, in a page opening or on the report cover, a particular crop could fall below the minimum in a way a token calculation would not catch.
The insight articles have had a lighter review than the templates. They are all built from the same components, and their images carry descriptions from a single reviewed list, but we have not re-read every article individually to confirm that every link makes sense out of context or that every image description is the best one available.
Accessibility is assessed at a point in time. This statement describes the site as it stood on the date in section 2. We publish frequently, and a change made after that date has not been through this assessment.

Telling us about a problem

6.1 If something on this website is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us. Email hello@gamechanger360.co.uk, with accessibility in the subject line if that is convenient.

6.2 It helps if you can say which page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what happened instead. If you use a particular browser, device or assistive technology, telling us which one usually makes the problem much quicker to find. None of that is required, and a short message saying a page does not work for you is a perfectly good report.

6.3 We aim to respond within five working days. That is a commitment to reply and to tell you what we are going to do, not a promise that every fix will be finished by then: some are a few minutes of work and some are not. If a fix will take longer, we will say so and give you a realistic idea of when.

6.4 If you need something on this site in a different format, ask us for it at the same address. That includes the Integrity Readiness Report described in section 5, and any page you would rather receive as plain text or large print.

6.5 We treat accessibility reports the way we treat any other defect report, which means they go to the people who build the site rather than into a general inbox to be triaged later.

If we do not put it right

7.1 We would much rather hear from you first and fix it. If you are not satisfied with how we respond, you do not have to leave it there.

7.2 In the United Kingdom, the Equality Act 2010 requires service providers to make reasonable adjustments so that disabled people are not put at a substantial disadvantage, and that duty applies to a website as much as to a building.

7.3 If a complaint to us is not resolved, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service, known as the EASS. The EASS is the government-funded service that advises individuals on discrimination and human rights issues in England, Scotland and Wales, and it can advise you on what to do next. Their contact details, including a telephone line, a text relay number and a British Sign Language service, are published on their own website.

7.4 Raising a complaint with us or with the EASS does not affect any other legal right you have.

Keeping this statement current

8.1 This statement was prepared on 23 September 2026 and describes the site as assessed on that date. The date shown with this page is the date of the current version.

8.2 We review it when the site changes materially, when a report from a reader shows something in it is wrong, and at least once a year in any event.

8.3 When the independent audit described in section 2 has been carried out, we will update section 2 with the date and who carried it out, and section 5 with whatever it finds. If it finds something we claimed was fine and is not, we will correct the claim rather than quietly delete it.

8.4 Questions about this statement should be emailed to hello@gamechanger360.co.uk.