Accessibility

Where Countries Stand should be usable by everyone, including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard, voice control or magnification.

What you can expect

• Text can be enlarged to 200% or more without loss of content, and the layout adapts to small screens.
• Every part of the site can be used with a keyboard alone. A “Skip to main content” link is the first stop.
• Pages follow your device’s light or dark setting, respect “reduce motion”, and keep working in high-contrast (forced colours) modes.
• Text and controls meet the colour contrast levels in the guidelines.
• Progress while a briefing is prepared, and its completion, are announced to screen readers.
• Citations are links labelled with the source they go to, such as “Source 3”.
• The site uses no cookies and needs no account.

Standard and testing

The site aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

It was last tested on 25 October 2026. Every page, and a finished briefing with its sources, were checked with the axe-core automated checker at desktop and phone sizes, with no failures found. Keyboard use was checked by hand.

Automated checks find only some problems, so testing with people who use assistive technology is still to do. If something does not work for you, please tell us.

Known limitations

• Briefings are written by AI. They are checked against their sources, not for plain English, so some may be harder to read than we would like.
• Quotations are reproduced exactly as they appear in the UN’s records, so that they can be checked against them. Records before 1994 are text recognised from scanned pages and may contain errors from the scanning.
• Links to the official record go to the United Nations’ own documents, mostly PDFs, whose accessibility we cannot control.

Reporting a problem

If you find something hard to use, or need information in a different format, email admin@wheretheystand.uk. We aim to reply within 10 working days.