Accessibility

Our goal is to ensure our webpages are built in a manner that can deliver an experience that is equally accessible and inclusive for all users. 

Font Sizes

The headings and related copy on our website are created in a manner that is well structured and organised. Formatting text in a logical hierarchy means that our content is easy to follow both visually and contextually. 

In addition, the text on our website supports adjustments on the browser’s ‘text resize’ option, meaning that users can increase or decrease our website’s text size as they please.

Alternative Text  

We use alternative text options (alt tags) on all images uploaded to our website. This means that images are acknowledged by screen readers and described to the user. 

Link Text

We strive for any hyperlinks to be clearly understood out of context, and place tooltips against all links to provide further details to the user. In addition, all hyperlinks are contrasted against standard text ensuring they are easily viewable.

Accessible Colouring

No two Berkeley Group developments are the same, and our website uses a broad scope of colours to showcase the character and themes of each of our individual developments. When, however, a new colour palette is added to the website, we strive for a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 between the background and foreground colours. This complies with our benchmark of the W3C standard, technique G18. This is done to make sure that individuals with low vision or colour vision deficiencies do not have restricted use whilst navigating our webpages. It also ensures maximum readability for all users.

Browser Types

Our website has been built to support all major browser types to ensure a seamless user experience no matter which platform is preferred. 

Video Autoplay

We often use autoplay videos on our website for our rolling video headers, frequently seen on our development pages. In doing this, we ensure that video autoplay is determined by the browser/device settings of our users, giving each user the freedom to opt out of this feature.

In addition, our autoplay development headers do not use sound, meaning this will not disrupt the audio of screen readers.

Keyboard Navigation

Our website supports keyboard navigation, allowing users to use keyboard commands independently to navigate through webpages.