Accessibility

What we aim for

We aim for this website to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, the standard most UK public bodies work to. That covers the design and the code, and it covers the words: plain English, headings in order, links that make sense on their own, and a text description for every photograph that is more than decoration.

What the site is built to do

• Fit a phone screen, or a page zoomed in, without scrolling sideways. We check pages at phone, tablet and desktop widths for text that is cut off and for buttons too small to tap.
• Keep still if you ask it to. If your device is set to reduce motion, the site turns off its animations and smooth scrolling.
• Give every walk in words as well as on a map. Each route is written out step by step, with its distance, its climb and what to expect underfoot, and the interactive map loads only when you ask for it. The route can also be downloaded as a GPX file for a phone or a GPS device.
• Say plainly what a place is like to get into and around. Where a page describes access, such as steps, an accessible toilet or Blue Badge parking, the facts come from the venue, its access statement or AccessAble, and the page gives the date we checked. If a page says nothing about access, it means we do not know, not that there is nothing there.

Where it falls short

The interactive maps can be hard to use with a keyboard or a screen reader. Everything they show is also in the words on the page: the directions, the distances and each place's address.

Some links take you to other organisations' websites, such as a venue, a bus operator or a booking site. Those sites are not ours, and how well they work for you is up to them. If one of them stops you booking or finding out what you need, tell us and we will look for another way to give you the information.

Tell us when something gets in your way

If something on this website stops you doing what you came to do, email us and tell us the page and what happened. For Cotswolds Info, write to contact@cotswolds.info. For Banburyshire, write to contact@banburyshire.com. We read everything, reply within a few working days, and say what we are going to do about it.

If you need something from a page in another form, such as the directions for a walk as plain text or the facts about a place read to you over the phone, ask at the same address and we will do what we can.

This statement was written on 7 November 2026.