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Accessibility

Accessibility at Assembly

We want the Assembly website and app to work for everyone. This page sums up where we are.

What we aim for

We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA, the middle level of the international standard for accessible websites. We do not meet it everywhere yet. Our accessibility statement lists what does not work today, and the WCAG A and AA page shows where we stand on each of the 55 criteria.

Where we are today

Our statement covers the website and the Assembly app. We test with a keyboard and with automated tools as we build. No person has yet used the Assembly app with a screen reader. An AI agent has run Apple's VoiceOver screen reader over parts of it, in the questionnaire and its help chat, and the How we test page lists what it covered. Nobody has tried the NVDA or JAWS screen readers. No external audit has been carried out, so nobody outside Assembly has checked the product.

If something does not work for you, email info@helloassembly.com and we will fix it.

What we have done

  • Keyboard first

    Skip links take you to the menu or the main content. Links and buttons show a clear outline when you tab to them. Menus close with Escape and put you back where you were. Our keyboard tests cannot stop a change going live on the website, and no test tries every path through the site.

  • Clear structure

    Every page has landmarks, labelled menus and headings in order. An automated checker tests the landmarks and labels on 34 of the website's 43 pages and 21 of the app's 72 web addresses. On the website it cannot stop a change going live. On the app it runs again once a change is in, and a failure stops that change reaching the live app unless we override it and record why. No person has yet listened to how this sounds through a screen reader.

  • Motion is optional

    If your device asks for less motion, scroll animations switch off and content just appears. You can also turn movement down with Display in the footer.

  • Easy to read

    Long pages use large text and short lines, and nothing stops you zooming. At 200% zoom, no page we measured scrolled sideways. Display in the footer makes text up to 150% larger. About sixty text sizes are still fixed, so they ignore that setting and your browser's default font size.

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