Accessibility

What is in place

• A skip-to-content link as the first thing you reach with the keyboard, on every page.
• Proper landmarks: a header, a navigation, a main region and a footer, so a screen reader can jump between them.
• One heading per page that says what the page is, and headings below it in order with no levels skipped.
• Every link and button reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus outline that is not removed.
• Descriptive link text, so a link read on its own still says where it goes.
• Alternative text on images that carry meaning, and empty alt text on the ones that are decoration, so a screen reader skips them.
• Pages that work without JavaScript. The content and the navigation are in the HTML, not built in the browser.
• Reduced motion respected: if your system asks for less movement, transitions are turned off.
• Maps that never trap the page. Scrolling over a map scrolls the page unless you deliberately take hold of the map.

What we know is not perfect

• The site has not been tested with a screen reader by somebody who uses one daily. Automated checks find a fraction of real problems, and we would rather say that than imply a clean audit.
• Business photographs come from businesses' own websites, and logos from Google. We cannot write meaningful alternative text for a photograph we have not seen, so those images are marked as decorative and the information they would carry is written out in the text instead.
• The maps are visual. The businesses and figures they show are also listed as text on the same page, though the text does not give every location.

Telling us about a problem

If something on this site is hard or impossible to use, tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way: hello@nearbyuk.com. It is genuinely useful, and a specific report is worth more than a general one.

This is a statement of intent and current status, not a formal accessibility audit or a legal compliance certificate.