Accessibility statement

Mightier Legal, the company that operates AccidentBureau, is committed to making this site usable by as many people as possible. That includes people who navigate with a keyboard, use a screen reader or screen magnifier, rely on voice control, or have set their device for reduced motion, larger text, or higher contrast.

We treat accessibility as part of building the site properly — something we check as we go, not a box ticked once at the end.

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2, at conformance Level AA. WCAG is the internationally recognized standard for digital accessibility, and Level AA is the benchmark most commonly referenced in connection with United States accessibility law.

We say “aim to” deliberately. We test the site against this standard and fix the issues we find, but accessibility is ongoing work — and we would rather describe it honestly than claim a level of conformance we have not fully verified.

Measures already built into the site include the following.

• Structured, semantic HTML, so assistive technology can move through each page in a logical order.
• Full keyboard operability — including a “skip to main content” link and a visible focus outline on every link and button.
• Form fields with clear, programmatically associated labels, and validation errors that are announced to screen-reader users rather than signalled by color alone.
• Text and background colors checked against the contrast ratios WCAG requires.
• Support for the “reduced motion” setting in your operating system, so animations are minimized if you have asked your device for that.
• Pages that load and function without JavaScript, and that do not rely on color, sound, or motion alone to convey meaning.

We would rather be upfront about the areas still in progress.

• Our live crash map is an interactive map provided by a third-party mapping service. Maps are difficult to make fully accessible; alongside it we publish the same incident information as a plain text list, and we are continuing to improve the map itself.
• A few features rely on third-party components — for example, the security check that protects our forms from automated abuse. We select vendors with accessibility in mind, but we do not fully control how their components behave.
• We are completing a round of manual testing with assistive technology, which routinely finds issues that automated checks miss. Fixes from that testing are ongoing.

If you reach something on AccidentBureau you cannot read, reach, or operate, we want to know. It helps us fix the site, and it helps the next person who needs it.

You can reach us at support@accidentbureau.com. If you can, please tell us the page you were on, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology you were using — it helps us find and fix the problem faster. We will do our best to respond promptly and to resolve access issues as quickly as we reasonably can.