Accessibility

1. Our commitment

Atlas51 is committed to making its website accessible to as many people as possible — regardless of disability, assistive technology, or how people choose to access the web.

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. These are the internationally recognised standards for web accessibility. Meeting them means the site should be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust for the widest practical range of users.

This statement applies to the public Atlas51 website, including the trip catalogue, the enquiry and trip-application forms, and the Field Notes.

2. Current state

The site is built with semantic HTML, keyboard navigability and colour contrast in mind, and we test the parts people rely on most:

• Every page starts with a "Skip to content" link, and every page has a single main landmark for it to reach.
• Every published photograph on the site has alt text describing what is in the picture. Where a photograph also carries a caption, the caption gives trip context and the alt text describes the image; they are written separately and do neither job by halves.
• Form errors are announced to a screen reader as they appear, are tied to the field that caused them, and say what to do next rather than only what went wrong.
• After a successful enquiry or application, focus moves to the confirmation heading, so the outcome is read out rather than left for you to discover.
• The full-screen photograph viewer opens as a modal dialog: focus stays inside it, Escape closes it, and focus returns to the photograph you opened it from.
• The cookie banner can be reached and operated by keyboard, and the Cookie settings link in the footer reopens it at any time.

Known limitations at this stage:

• The trip route map is drawn as an SVG plate. It carries a text label describing the route, but screen-reader support for the map layer itself is partial. The route is also given as text beside the map — one day at a time, with previous and next controls that work by keyboard, and each day announced as it changes. There is no single page listing every day at once.
• The short films do not yet carry captions or a transcript.

We review accessibility as the site changes. We have not yet commissioned an independent accessibility audit, so this statement reports our own testing rather than a third party's.

3. How to request an accessible alternative

If you find any part of this website difficult to use, or if you need the information in a different format, contact us in whichever way suits you:

• Email tommy@atlas51.co.
• Use the enquiry form, which asks whether you would rather we replied by email or by phone, and answers using the one you choose.
• Write to our registered office: 2 Beeches Road, London, England, SW17 7LZ.

Every enquiry is saved before we attempt to email anyone, so a submission is not lost if our email fails. You will see a confirmation on screen once it is saved. Please note that a trip application is not a booking; it starts a conversation.

4. How to report a barrier

If you find an accessibility problem we have not mentioned, please tell us. We take these reports seriously and use them to improve the site.

Email tommy@atlas51.co, use the enquiry form, or write to our registered office. Please describe what you were trying to do and what went wrong, and include the URL of the page if you can.

5. Review cadence

We review this statement annually. When the site undergoes significant changes, we re-test against WCAG 2.2 AA before deploying them. The date at the top of this page shows when this statement was last updated.