Accessibility Statement

Measures to Support Accessibility

Friday Agency takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of www.friday.ie:

• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies
• Provide continual accessibility training for our staff
• Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

www.friday.ie is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard. We have an active project that is ongoing to make the website fully conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA.

 

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of www.friday.ie. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on www.friday.ie:

• Phone: +353 1 557 1321
• E-mail: hi@friday.ie
• Visitor Address: Friday Agency, 61 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2, D02 EW25, Ireland
• Postal Address: Friday Agency, 61 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2, D02 EW25, Ireland

We try to respond to feedback within 3 business days.

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of www.friday.ie relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• Semantic HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and Alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of www.friday.ie, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for www.friday.ie:

1. Blog posts: Some uploaded images may not have text alternatives because past contributors did not always add text alternatives. We have an ongoing project to update all legacy content to have text alternatives. Please contact us if you encounter an issue.
2. Video: YouTube videos are embedded using iframes. Some of the components of these iframes have the following known accessibility issues: components do not have sufficient colour contrast, the related videos inner slider is missing an accessible name, some content can disappear on hover, some hidden content is readable with a screen reader, and on logo hover the content is not dismissible. Since these are third-party elements originating from YouTube, Friday Agency currently has no ability to rectify these issues with the iframes code used to embed videos . Our team will continue to seek a solution for these issues.
3. Aria: We are working to ensure that where HTML isn’t sufficient, ARIA attributes are used.
4. Status Messages: We are currently working to ensure all form messages are announced to screen readers using aria attributes.
5. Target Size: We are updating all pointer input target sizes to be at least 24 by 24 pixels.
6. Focus Visible: We are updating all focusable elements to have a visible indicator and ensuring they aren not covered of hidden by page content.
7. Tables: We are working to update any tabular data to use Tables.

Assessment Approach

Friday Agency assessed the accessibility of www.friday.ie by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation
• External evaluation

Formal Complaints

Friday Agency is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for persons with disabilities. We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website.

If you have a comments or complaint about the accessibility of this website, please email our David Jackson at (01) 557 1321 or email at hi@friday.ie

David’s role is to provide, arrange for and/or coordinate assistance and guidance to persons with disabilities accessing the services we provide.

If you wish to request particular content in an accessible format please include the following details:

• Your required format
• The content you wish to receive (please include the url of the content)
• Your name and email address

We will make all reasonable efforts to fulfil your request.You can make a complaint about the accessibility of this website under the Disability Act 2005 (No. 14 of 2005) via our Contact us page.

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

David Jackon
UX Director
Friday Agency