Accessibility

The guide is plain HTML with a small amount of script. Pages reflow on narrow screens and keep working when text is enlarged, in reader modes and with browser translation.

The flat or house checker

The checker is six drop-down lists, each with a visible label. Changing any of them rewrites the result below, which screen readers announce politely without moving focus. A first result is already on the page before any script runs, and the rules it applies are written out in full on the checker's own page.

The borough tiles

The ten tiles on the home page are ordinary links, one per borough, named after the borough and leading to its group page. Each tile states its figures in text. Hover and focus give the same lift and outline, so the keyboard sees what the mouse sees. The tiles fade in when they scroll into view; with reduced motion set, they appear immediately, and without script they are visible from the start.

Bars and tables

The comparison bars are lists with each borough's value written beside its bar and the England and Wales reference given in words, so the bar length is never the only signal. Tables have captions naming their sources and header cells for rows and columns, and wide tables sit in labelled regions that can be scrolled with the keyboard.

Menus and the form

The header menus work by keyboard and mark the current page. Every field in the question form has a visible label, and the browser's own checks point to anything missing before you send.

Known limits

The planning diagram is an image with a full text description, and the same rules appear in the page text and the checker. Some government datasets we link to are spreadsheets that are harder to use with assistive technology than this site.

Tell us

If something here does not work for you, use the form on the contact page, say which page and what happened, and we will reply by email and fix what we can.