ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

Our walking tours will largely be at ground level and involve moving at a moderate pace over short distances. Specifically for wheelchair users, we have designed the tours so that all the routes are or can be accessible. In most cities, we do not need to make any route adjustments but in a couple, we will need to make adjustments (Edinburgh & Stirling). Please contact us to discuss access requirements in advance. For example: if you have reduced mobility/are a wheelchair user, we can provide an alternative route/adjustments to the route to avoid dropped curbs and cobbles. Tours are delivered verbally by Walking Tours in the UK guides in the English language. 

Please note if you have a visual impairment, you are welcome to join the tour also. Perhaps you may be more comfortable bringing a helper to help navigate, but the guides can adapt the tours to describe in extra detail what is in front of you.

If you’d like more information regarding the accessibility of the tours please email us at walkingtoursinscotland@gmail.com or walkingtoursinengland@gmail.com.

This website is run by Walking Tours in The UK. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• Zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen.

• Navigate most of the website using just a keyboard.

• Navigate most of the website using speech recognition software.

• Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent version of VoiceOver) 

We scored 94% on a Lighthouse Accessibility Report, however, we recognise that some areas of the website are not fully accessible:

• Color contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived brightness between two colors. Some elements on the website may not meet colour contrast standards.

• Some images may not have ‘alternative text’ or ‘alt text’ (short textual descriptions of images).

• Properly ordered headings that do not skip levels convey the semantic structure of the page. Some of the heading elements on the website are not in a sequentially-descending order.

As part of our ongoing efforts to make the website more accessible, we will aim to resolve the areas mentioned above by June 2022.

We have tested this website by using an accessibility moderating tool: Lighthouse.

We have undertaken accessibility training with Wheel The World to widen our knowledge of in-person and digital accessibility. All of our tour guides have access to and are trained on an accessibility document based on the knowledge from Wheel the World. We aim to resolve outstanding accessibility issues on the website in 2022