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  • Accessibility Statement From British Online Archives

    This website is run by Microform LTD. Our aim is to make it as accessible and user-friendly as possible. This means you should be able to:

    • change colours, contrast levels, and fonts.
    • zoom-in up to 300% without text spilling off the screen.
    • navigate most of the website using a keyboard.
    • navigate most of the website using speech recognition software.
    • listen to most of the website’s content using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver).


    We have also endeavoured to make the website text as simple as possible to understand.

    AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

    Please contact us at support@britishonlinearchives.digital if you have any feedback on the accessibility of our website.

  • What To Do If You Cannot Access Parts Of This Website

    Please email support@britishonlinearchives.digital if you require our content to be presented in a different format, such as accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording, or braille.

    We will consider your request and aim to get back to you within 1–2 working days.

  • Reporting Accessibility Problems With This Website

    We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you have any suggestions or are concerned that this website is not meeting accessibility requirements please contact us.

    By email: info@britishonlinearchives.co.uk or support@britishonlinearchives.digital 

    By phone: +44 (0)1924 825700

    In person: British Online Archives, Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 2AP, United Kingdom

    Our main office is open Monday to Thursday 9.00am–5.00pm, and Friday 9.00am–3.30pm. We ask that you contact us before visiting to ensure that someone is on hand to deal with your enquiry.

  • Enforcement Procedure

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the “accessibility regulations”). If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

  • Technical Information About This Website’s Accessibility

    British Online Archives is committed to making our website accessible in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

    This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

    Inaccessible content

    The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

    Noncompliance with the accessibility regulations:

    • some images do not have a text alternative, which fails WCAG 2.1 criterion 1.1.1 (Non-text Content).
    • podcasts do not currently have a descriptive text transcript, which fails WCAG 2.1 criterion 1.2.1 (Prerecorded Audio-only and Video-only).
    • sometimes instructions rely on shape, size, or visual location, such as our Support questions and answers, which fails WCAG 2.1 criterion 1.3.3 (Sensory Characteristics).
    • contrast of links is sometimes insufficient, which fails WCAG 2.1 criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast (Minimum)).
    • there is currently only one way to find other web pages on BOA, which fails WCAG 2.1 criterion 2.4.5 (Multiple Ways).


    Work is ongoing to meet WCAG 2.1 success criteria for Level A and AA. We aim to meet this criteria by December 2024.

    Disproportionate burden

    • Interactive tools and transactions: 
      • British Online Archives uses the Universal Viewer (UV) to display images and other media (PDFs, JPEGs, video, audio, etc.). This may introduce accessibility difficulties with media which are out of our control, such as text flow issues when using screen readers. More information on the UV can be found on their website.
      • Note: Not every collection currently uses the UV. We are working on implementing it within all of our collections. Other collections utilise a library to display our documents, called PDF.js. This may introduce accessibility difficulties with PDFs which are out of our control, such as text flow issues when using screen readers.
    • Content that is not within the scope of the accessibility regulations:
      • None applicable.


  • How We Test This Website

    We test this website using the following evaluation methods:


    This website was tested internally on 28/02/2023.

    Our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) document provides further details on accessibility.

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