Gardeners Preston Accessibility Statement

Gardeners Preston is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive online experience for all visitors, including people with disabilities. We want everyone in the Preston area to be able to access information about our gardening services, understand our content, and contact us without barriers.

Our Accessibility Commitment

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1, Level AA. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Following these guidelines also improves usability for all users, including older people and those using mobile devices or slower connections in the Preston area.

Measures We Take To Support Accessibility

To offer an accessible experience for visitors looking for gardeners in Preston, we take a number of technical and design measures across our website. Our goal is to make content clear, consistent, and easy to navigate, whichever device or assistive technology you use.

Screen-Reader Support

Our website is designed to work with modern screen-reader software. We aim to provide meaningful headings, descriptive page titles, and a logical reading order so that people using screen readers can understand the structure of each page. Images that convey important information are given alternative text so that you can access the same content without relying on visual cues.

We avoid using images of text wherever possible, so that text can be read, resized, and interpreted correctly by assistive technologies. When decorative images are used, they are marked so that screen readers can skip them and allow visitors to focus on the main content.

Keyboard Navigation

Our site is intended to be fully usable with a keyboard alone. People who cannot use a mouse should be able to move through pages using the Tab, Shift plus Tab, Enter, and arrow keys. We aim to provide a visible focus indicator so that it is always clear which element on the page is currently selected. Menus, forms, and key interactive elements are designed so that they can be accessed and operated through keyboard navigation.

We also work to ensure that there are no keyboard traps. Users must always be able to move to the next element or back to previous elements without getting stuck, supporting a smoother experience for people navigating our gardening services in Preston using only a keyboard or alternative input device.

Readable Content and Layout

We use clear headings, short paragraphs, and plain language wherever possible to make our information easier to understand. Colour choices aim to provide good contrast between text and background to support visitors with low vision or colour vision deficiencies. Pages are designed to be responsive, so that people in the Gardeners Preston area can access our content comfortably on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.

Ongoing Improvements

Accessibility is an ongoing process. We review our site periodically to identify issues and make improvements. As we update or expand our information about gardening services in Preston, we work to maintain and enhance accessibility standards so that all visitors can continue to use the site effectively.

Feedback and Accessibility Requests

We welcome feedback from visitors who encounter difficulties using our website. If you experience any accessibility barriers, have trouble finding information, or need content in an alternative format, you can contact us by using the contact form provided on our website. Please include details about the page or feature you were using and the type of problem you experienced.

We take all accessibility requests seriously and will review your comments to identify what can be improved. Where possible, we will provide an accessible solution or a suitable alternative so you can access the information you need about our gardening services in the Preston area.

Date of this Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement was last reviewed and updated to reflect our current efforts to support an accessible experience for all visitors to the Gardeners Preston website.