Accessibility

We are in the process of migrating our core websites from our legacy infrastructure to a modern, headless platform powered by Craft Cloud. This transition allows us to build accessibility directly into the foundation of our code, design templates, and content management systems.

• aidsmap.com: The first of our flagship websites was successfully migrated to the new platform in October 2026. This site features our brand-new, accessibility-first design templates, offering streamlined keyboard navigation, cleaner code for screen readers, and faster load times. 
• tht.org.uk: Work is underway to migrate our main website onto the new platform and templates. We are working towards this working being completed in the summer of 2027.
• Other websites: Our remaining digital estate will be incrementally migrated to this new platform. While this work is underway, they may still rely on legacy systems which receive ongoing maintenance but may not yet meet our new, higher standards of accessibility.

We test all of our websites against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA standard (WCAG), published by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Because we are in a transitional phase, our digital estate is partially compliant.
 

• Fully/Highly compliant: Pages hosted on our new platform (including aidsmap.com as of October 2026) have been built from the ground up to meet or exceed WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
• Partially compliant: Older, legacy templates and websites currently awaiting migration may contain intermittent accessibility barriers, such as complex heading structures, legacy form elements, or inconsistent focus indicators. These are being systematically replaced as part of our incremental rollout.

We use the same principles when selecting third-party platforms including:

• Our peer support platform, My Community, which is based on Mighty Networks. You can read about their approach to accessibility here.
• Our donations platform, Fundraise Up. You can read about their approach to accessibility here.
• Our counselling platform, Zanda Health. You can read about improving visual accessibility here.

Read how we produce high quality, accurate resources that have been evidenced, peer reviewed and user tested.

Text

We aim to write our text as clearly as possible using straight forward language and fonts that are clear and of high contrast. You can resize text using your browser settings. We use headings and sub-headings to break up text and to aid screen readers.

These are common browsers and how you can make text larger using them:

Using Microsoft Edge on a PC or Mac
1. Click ...
2. Select Accessibility
3. Choose the page zoom you want

Using Internet Explorer on a PC or Mac
1. Go to View
2. Zoom In.

Using Google Chrome for PC
1. Go to Page menu bar at the top right of the page

2. Adjust the zoom.

Using Firefox for PC
1. Go to View
2. Text size and select Increase.

Using Firefox for Mac
1. Go to View
2. Zoom In.

Images

We are working to ensure all our images have alternative text which describes what is displayed on the screen. This is an on-going piece of work.

Links

All links written in sentences are clearly displayed in a different colour.

Navigation

We use consistent navigational aids throughout our websites.

You can use the Tab key to move between links and between parts of a form.

Holding down the Shift key and pressing Tab will move you back up the page.

You can use the Return key to follow a link or to select an option in a form.

The Up and Down keys allow you to select options from drop-down menus.

You can return to the homepage at any time by clicking our logo at the top left-hand corner.

Downloads

All our information publications are available to download as Adobe PDF files. To open our PDF files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.

Page layout

We use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to build page layouts which means that pages are well structured and support most assistive technologies.
 

AbilityNet provides advice on making your computer or mobile device easier to use.

Information is also available from:

• Apple accessibility
• Google accessibility
• Microsoft accessibility

EqualWeb widget

While we work to migrate this website, tht.org.uk, to a more accessible platform, the current website utilises the EqualWeb accessibility widget. This appears as a button on the left of your screen and enables you to personalise their experience including being able to read text to speech and adjust content including:
•    Scaling
•    Readable font, font size, line height, spacing, alignment and text magnifier
•    Highlight titles and links
•    Colours, contrast and saturation
•    Orientation adjustments

EqualWeb can be opened by clicking the button or link.