1. Our approach
The ECNETNews website has been designed with recognised accessibility principles in mind, including perceivable content, keyboard operability, understandable navigation, and robust semantic markup.
Accessibility is an ongoing process rather than a one-time certification. Changes to browsers, assistive technology, content, hosting, or website features may affect the experience and will require renewed testing.
2. Accessibility features included
- A skip link that allows keyboard users to move directly to the main content.
- Semantic landmarks, ordered heading levels, descriptive page titles, and labelled navigation regions.
- Keyboard-accessible menus, visible focus indicators, Escape-key support, and managed focus within the mobile navigation.
- Responsive layouts that reflow for small screens and support text enlargement without horizontal page scrolling under normal conditions.
- Text alternatives or decorative treatment for images and icons according to their purpose.
- Colour choices and text contrast intended to remain readable against the warm ivory, charcoal, and brass visual system.
- Reduced-motion support for users who request less animation through their operating-system or browser preference.
- Print-friendly formatting for the Terms of Service, Privacy Notice, and this statement.
3. Testing and review
The public pages were reviewed before release using keyboard navigation, responsive viewport checks, markup and internal-link checks, and automated WCAG A and AA testing. No automated A or AA violations were identified in the tested version.
Automated testing cannot identify every accessibility issue and does not amount to formal certification. Human experience, assistive-technology combinations, browser settings, and future content may reveal barriers that were not detected during the review.
4. Browser and assistive-technology compatibility
The site is intended to work with current versions of major browsers and with common keyboard, screen-reader, zoom, and mobile accessibility features. Older browsers, unusual combinations of software, disabled style sheets, aggressive content blockers, or custom high-contrast settings may present the design differently while leaving the underlying content available.
No third-party advertising widgets, remote font services, embedded social feeds, or external video players are used on the website, reducing several common sources of accessibility and performance problems.
5. Known limitations
No specific unresolved barrier has been identified in the current tested pages. This does not guarantee that every visitor will encounter a barrier-free experience. The highly stylised brand logo is an image, but the adjacent text wordmark identifies the site and the logo image is treated as decorative where appropriate.
Ordinary email is the contact method currently offered. Visitors who cannot use an email application may ask a trusted person to contact ECNETNews on their behalf. Additional contact methods will be reassessed as the website and its services evolve.
6. Report an accessibility barrier
Send accessibility feedback to info@ecnetnews.com. Please identify the page, describe what you were trying to do, and, where useful, mention the browser, device, or assistive technology involved. Do not include sensitive information that is not needed to understand the issue.
Reports will be reviewed in good faith and reasonable efforts will be made to correct confirmed barriers or provide an accessible alternative.
7. Alternative access
If information on this website is not accessible to you, request the relevant content in an alternative form by email. Depending on the material and request, an alternative may include plain text, a simplified explanation, or the relevant information within the email response.
8. Updates
This statement will be reviewed when substantial functionality or content is added, including live articles, accounts, newsletters, forms, embedded media, advertising, or user submissions. The review date above will be updated when a material accessibility assessment is completed.