Accessibility Statement
Last updated: August 2026
This statement applies to www.sevenlayers.online. We build accessible websites for clients, so it would be poor form not to hold our own to the same standard — and to be specific about where it currently stands rather than claiming perfection.
The standard we build to
This site is designed and built to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. That is one version beyond the WCAG 2.1 AA required by the European Accessibility Act via EN 301 549, and beyond what UK public-sector regulations require of private companies.
We consider this site substantially conformant with WCAG 2.2 AA. “Substantially” is doing real work in that sentence — the known exceptions are listed further down.
What we have actually measured
These are results from testing this site, not general claims about our practice:
- Colour contrast is sampled from rendered pixels rather than read from stylesheets, because gradients,
color-mix()and mid-transition colours make computed styles unreliable. Text across the site measures between 4.5:1 and 18:1 in both the light and dark themes. - Every route is swept at 390px, 768px and 1440px for horizontal overflow and JavaScript errors. Current result: no page scrolls sideways and no page throws.
- Heading structure is checked automatically on every page for skipped levels, and there are none. Each page has exactly one
h1. - Target size is checked against the WCAG 2.2 minimum of 24×24 CSS pixels on interactive controls.
- Keyboard operation — every interactive element is reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus indicator and a skip link to the main content.
- Reduced motion — the site carries a fair amount of animation, and all of it is suppressed when your system asks for reduced motion. Content never depends on movement to be understood.
Where it falls short
Being straight about the gaps is the point of a statement like this:
- Illustrative mock-ups of client websites — the small previews of work we have built — reproduce someone else's brand colours. One of those, a client logo treatment, measures 4.48:1 against its background, marginally below the 4.5:1 threshold. These panels are decorative and hidden from assistive technology, and we do not alter a client's brand to suit our own audit.
- Automated testing has limits. The sweeps above catch structural problems well. They do not catch whether an alt text is useful, whether a reading order makes sense, or whether a control is understandable. We review those by hand, and human review is fallible.
- We have not commissioned a third-party audit of this site, and we have not tested it with every screen reader and browser combination. If we had, we would name them here.
Assistive technology
The site uses standard HTML landmarks, headings and labels, so it should work with any current screen reader, magnifier, speech-input tool or switch device. It works with JavaScript disabled: navigation, content, the blog and all filtering are plain links, and the figures on the home page render their real values in the HTML rather than counting up from zero.
If something does not work
Please tell us — it is genuinely useful, and we will fix it.
Email hello@sevenlayers.online or message us on WhatsApp. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened. If you use assistive technology, naming it helps us reproduce the problem.
We aim to respond within two working days and to tell you either when it is fixed or why it will take longer. If you are unhappy with our response, say so in reply and it will be looked at again.
Accessibility in the work we sell
Every site we build is designed to WCAG 2.2 AA as standard rather than as a paid extra. If you sell into the EU, the European Accessibility Act has applied since June 2025 and it reaches UK businesses — we wrote up what that means in the European Accessibility Act and UK businesses, and the commercial argument in the business case for accessible websites.
Preparation of this statement
This statement was prepared in August 2026 based on our own testing of this site, using a combination of automated checks across every page and manual review. It is reviewed whenever the site changes substantially.
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