Our approach to accessibility
We’ve aimed to structure content clearly, use readable text and sufficient colour contrast, and support navigation by keyboard and screen reader throughout the site. We review accessibility periodically as part of ongoing improvements, and welcome feedback on anything that doesn’t work as expected.
How accessible is our website today?
Our website is currently partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard. But we acknowledge that there is always room for improvement and recognise the opportunity to do better.
We have an ongoing programme of activities aimed at enhancing our accessibility for everyone. While we’re working hard to ensure the accessibility of our site, we are actively exploring and resolving a number of known limitations.
Today, this means that most users of our website should, at the very least, be able to:
- zoom in up to 300%, without encountering critical problems
- increase the font size where required
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard, and skip through navigation items
- use most of the website with the aid of a screen reader.
Making the site easier to use
- Zoom and text size – most browsers let you resize text or zoom in without losing the layout.
- Keyboard navigation – you should be able to move through the site using a keyboard alone.
- Screen readers – pages are structured with the aim of working well with common screen reader software.
- Colour and contrast – we aim for contrast levels in line with WCAG 2.2 AA guidance.
Adapting your experience to your needs
We want everyone to have a great experience while using our website, but you may find that changing the settings on your computer will help tailor that experience to suit your individual needs.
If you encounter any issues while using the site, you can report them to us. You can also get support and guidance on accessing the wide range of accessibility and personalisation tools built into computers, tablets, and mobile phones via My Computer My Way, a free resource that helps you customise your computer to make it easier to use. This resource will help make it easier for you to use all websites, not just ours.
We don’t provide built-in accessibility tools, as we believe it’s better to support everyone’s personal device settings and assistive technologies.
Documents
Downloadable documents, such as PDF files, aren’t always fully accessible. Where possible, we are moving away from using non-accessible PDF formats. In the future we will either make these sort of documents accessible for screen readers, or use a combination of ordinary HTML / web pages supported by PDF documents as required. If you come across any content that you can’t access, then please email us, and we will provide you with an accessible alternative.
Need this information in a different format?
If you need content from this website in an alternative format – for example large print, audio or plain text – get in touch and we’ll do what we reasonably can to help.
Third-party resources
Sometimes we use resources supplied by third parties, such audio and video players which ‘embed’ content in the website. These resources and the way they work are not under our control, so we will always do our best to ensure that they conform with the WCAG standards
External links
The FEA is not responsible for the content of external websites, nor any accessibility issues that may be present on those websites.
Tell us about an accessibility issue
If you come across something on this site that’s difficult to access or use, please let us know. We can’t promise an immediate fix, but every report helps us understand where to focus our improvements.
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared in September 2026 and remains under regular review.