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Web accessibility statement

The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are for everyone, everywhere, regardless of ability, age, language or background.

Our website is one of the main ways that people will find out about and share the excitement of the Games, and we want to ensure that everyone can use it.

Including everyone

Our accessibility strategy has a broader reach than the groups traditionally covered in the area of accessibility. Quite simply, we want to be as inclusive as we can. We therefore consider the needs of:

  • People with visual, hearing or motor impairments
  • People with cognitive impairments
  • People with reading difficulties such as dyslexia
  • People whose mother tongue is not English
  • People from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds
  • People from different generations

Our aims

New media technologies are always changing, but we are committed to the following broad principles:

  • Providing help in using the site: offering help and advice to guide users in customising their computers.
  • Designing for use with assistive technologies: ensuring that our media work well with technologies such as software that reads pages aloud.
  • Following standards: London 2012 websites should comply with accessibility standards in commissioning, editorial, design and coding. These standards include the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, the Equality Act 2010 and the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, part three).
  • Testing: we work with specialist accessibility consultancies and real users with different needs to ensure that any problems are identified and solutions developed.
  • Innovating: looking for new ways of offering rich media in an accessible way and helping the development of technologies and standards for accessibility.

Guidelines

The accessibility guidelines we follow include:

  • Allowing users to control text sizes.
  • Using an easy-to-read font type.
  • Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast.
  • Using clear and simple grammar.
  • Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures.
  • Providing simple, consistent site navigation.
  • Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined.
  • Providing a sitemap.
  • Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support.
  • Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support.

Enlarging text

  • If you find it easier to view information in a larger font than the standard font on these pages, you can use the first set of Switch to normal text Switch to larger text Switch to largest text buttons at the top of each page to increase the size.

Changing colours

  • The colours used on this site have been chosen to provide good contrast and to minimise difficulty for those with different kinds of colour blindness.
  • You can use the Switch to the normal style sheet Switch to the dyslexia style sheet Switch to the high visibility style sheet buttons at the top of each page to adapt the colours to suit your preferences. The first Switch to the normal style sheet is the standard view. The second Switch to the dyslexia style sheet is for readers with dyslexia. The third Switch to the high visibility style sheet is a high visual colour view.

The bigger picture

Our Web Accessibility Policy is part of London 2012's broader commitment to accessible design, and to equality and diversity in general.

This ranges from ensuring a fair and representative group of people in our workforce and suppliers, to making sure that everyone will find the Olympic Park and venues easy to get around.