Accessibility statement

Our commitment

Embrace Therapeutic Fostering Services Ltd is committed to making this website accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of disability, age, technology or device.

We've built this site to meet the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 at level AA wherever possible.

What this means in practice

You should be able to:

• Zoom up to 200% without text spilling off the screen
• Move around most of the website using just a keyboard
• Use most of the website with speech recognition software
• Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
• Pause the video and the rotating word on our homepage. There's a pause button in the top corner of the picture

We've also written the content as clearly as we can, using plain language and avoiding jargon where possible.

Things we've built in

• Skip-to-content link at the top of every page
• Semantic HTML (proper headings, landmarks, lists)
• Alt text on informative images
• Sufficient colour contrast (purple and green button colours have been chosen to meet WCAG AA contrast)
• A visible outline on every link, button and form field you tab to, including on the dark purple sections
• Respect for the prefers-reduced-motion setting, if you have this turned on in your operating system, animations and the rotating headline will pause
• Form fields with proper labels and inline error messaging
• ARIA labels and roles where needed
• A focus trap inside the mobile menu, so tabbing stays in the menu until you close it

Known issues

We're aware of the following things that may cause problems for some users. We're working to fix them:

• Some Unsplash placeholder images currently in use will be replaced with real photography. The replacement images will all have proper alt text describing the content of the image
• The PDF Statement of Purpose may not yet be fully tagged for screen readers, we're updating that
• External videos embedded from third-party platforms may have variable caption quality

How to report a problem

If you encounter any accessibility problem on this site, or find that something doesn't work for you, please let us know. We take this seriously.

Email: enquiries@embracefostering.com
Phone: 01909 384429

Please tell us what you were trying to do and what went wrong. We'll respond within five working days and tell you what we're going to do about it.

Enforcement

The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 don't apply to us as a private fostering agency, but we follow them because they're good practice.

If you remain unhappy with how we've responded to an accessibility complaint, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) on 0808 800 0082 or equalityadvisoryservice.com.

Technical specification

This website was built to be accessible using the following technologies:

• HTML5 with semantic landmarks
• CSS3 with WCAG-compliant colour contrast
• Vanilla JavaScript (no framework dependencies on the front end)
• ARIA attributes where native HTML semantics aren't enough

How we tested

This site has been tested using:

• WAVE accessibility evaluation tool
• Keyboard-only navigation
• VoiceOver on macOS Safari
• Lighthouse accessibility audits
• Manual review against WCAG 2.2 AA criteria

This statement was prepared in May 2026 and last reviewed in August 2026. We check it at least once a year.