Accessibility statement

Our target

We aim for WCAG 2.2 Level AA in the newsletters Pressroom produces and in the Pressroom workspace. Neither meets that target in full yet. This page says where we are and what is still missing.

What this statement covers

Newsletter emails

The emails Pressroom sends, their plain-text version, and the same editions read on the web (the public archive and the “view in browser” page). We assessed these against WCAG 2.2 ourselves and wrote up the result as an Accessibility Conformance Report. Its summary is below.

The Pressroom workspace (in progress)

The web app editors and contributors use. An audit in September 2026 found that it does not yet conform: some dialogs, drag-and-drop boards and settings forms were hard or impossible to use with a keyboard or screen reader. We are fixing those problems now, and automated accessibility checks run on every change to the main screens. A separate conformance report will follow when that work is done.

Email conformance summary

Each WCAG 2.2 success criterion at Level A and AA, as rated in our report for the email output.

“Not applicable” mostly means the email has no audio, video, forms or sign-in. The full report is available on request through the contact route below.

Known limitations

In newsletter emails:

• 1.1.1 Non-text Content: alt text is required and checked, but its quality depends on the editor.
• 1.3.1 Info and Relationships: heading rules stop generation on one template only; others report them.
• 1.4.1 Use of Color: some links are told apart by layout rather than underline, and nothing checks this.
• 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context): generic link text is caught from a fixed list of phrases, and a finding can be overridden.
• 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide: animated images an editor uploads are not detected.
• 2.3.1 Three Flashes: uploaded animated images are not analysed for flashing.
• 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum): checked in light and dark mode, but partial colour inversion in some apps is unverified.
• 1.4.5 Images of Text: uploaded graphics containing text are not detected.
• 1.4.10 Reflow: checked at 360px, not the 320px the criterion uses.
• 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast: button and icon contrast is not measured.
• 1.4.12 Text Spacing: not tested.
• 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum): small links are reported as a warning that can be overridden.
• 3.1.2 Language of Parts: there is no way to mark a passage in another language.

More generally:

• Newsletter emails declare English as their language. All current newsletters publish in English; one written in another language would not meet WCAG 3.1.1 until a language setting exists.
• Publishers write the words and choose the images. Pressroom checks alt text, link text, headings and contrast before an edition can be signed off, but an editor can override a finding and send anyway.
• Your email app decides how much of the design it shows. We test with simulated Outlook, Gmail and Apple Mail rendering, not with real apps or screen readers.
• The Pressroom workspace does not yet conform, as described above.

Feedback and contact

If something in a newsletter or in Pressroom is hard to use, tell us what you were trying to do and where.

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