Accessibility

About Our Website

This website is managed by Microform Imaging Ltd. 

We strive to comply with accessibility guidelines and web standards to ensure that as many people as possible are able to use BOA.

We are always happy to receive feedback to help us improve the accessibility of our services. You can contact us via email at: accessibility@britishonlinearchives.com. To help us best assist you, please provide us with the following information: 

• The page URL
• Description of the issue
• The type of device used
• Browser and any assistive technology used

How Accessible This Website Is

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 AA standard. 

Some parts of this website are not fully accessible, for example:

• some navigation may require horizontal scrolling or cause text overflow at zoom levels above 200%
• some orphaned labels exist on pages with search facets
• descriptive text transcript or audio description are not currently provided for our support videos

Technical Information

Please review our Accessibility Conformance Report (PDF, opens in new tab) for a detailed breakdown of our website's compliance to each of the WCAG 2.2 criteria.

Disproportionate Burden

Like almost all websites, BOA's website utilises some third-party software packages to enhance functionality. We have limited or no control over the accessibility features of areas which use these packages, which under WCAG are exempt from testing and falls under 'disproportionate burden'.

• We utilise a library to display some of our older collections, called UniversalViewer. Accessibility information for UniversalViewer can be found in our Accessibility Conformance Report under "13. Resources".
• We include embedded media such as Transistor.fm podcasts, Vimeo videos, social media share buttons, and newsletter signup forms.

How We Tested This Website

This website was last tested on July 2026 internally. We use manual user testing including accessibility testing tools such as WAVE Web Accessibility Tool and axe Developer Tools. We also test using JAWS (version March 2026).

WCAG 2.2 levels A and AA are included in our Accessibility Conformance Report (PDF, opens in new tab). 

We review our accessibility standards every 3 months. The next review is due in September 2026.

This statement was last updated on 23rd July 2026.