Accessibility Statement - Explore Archives & Manuscripts

Scope

The British Library is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

The British Library operates a number of websites, subsites, and online services (“Sites”).

This accessibility statement supplements our main Accessibility Statement, and applies to the following Site:

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this Site are not fully accessible:

  • Aria labels are missing from menu commands and buttons
  • Some Aria roles are unspecified
  • Some checkboxes and buttons are unnamed or do not have a unique ID
  • iFrames components are not properly titled
  • No language is specified

Compliance status

This website is fully compliant with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Exemptions claimed are listed below.

Please note that the 'old site' is not compliant with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons: 

 

Content not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

  • Some Aria labels are missing or roles are unspecified, meaning that users of assistive technologies may not be able to navigate the content or adapt it to their needs. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships).
  • Some checkboxes and buttons are unnamed or do not have a unique ID, meaning that users of assistive technologies may not be able to navigate the content or adapt it to their needs. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships).
  • Some iFrame elements are unspecified, meaning that users may not be able to adapt the presentation of the pages to their needs, and users of assistive technologies may not receive the content in logical order. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships). 

  • No language is programmatically specified for some pages, meaning that users of assistive technologies may not be able to render the pages into human speech. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 3.1.1 (Language of Page).

  As these issues are caused by third party software components that are not developed by nor under the control of the Library, they are exempt from the Regulations under Reg 3(2)(e).

How we tested this website

This website was last tested on 02 March 2023. A full review of the site was carried out by the British Library using Google Lighthouse.