Accessibility statement
Everyone should be able to hear Sunday’s interviews.
This site is built so that it works with a keyboard, a screen reader, large text, high contrast and reduced motion — on a phone or a desktop. Where it falls short, we want to know.
The standard we work to
The Cats Roundtable aims to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA, the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act and by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Every page is checked automatically and tested by hand before it goes live.
What you can expect
- Keyboard. Everything — the player, the menu, the lineup, the forms — can be reached and operated with Tab, Enter, Space and the arrow keys. A “Skip to content” link is the first Tab stop, and the focused control always shows a visible ring and is never hidden under the player bar.
- Screen readers. Pages have one heading per level, named landmarks and real buttons. The player announces play, pause and progress; the seek bar reads its position in minutes and seconds.
- Text size and zoom. The page can be zoomed to 200 % and reflowed at 400 % without losing content or needing to scroll sideways, and the layout holds when a device’s text-size setting enlarges the type by half again; nothing is smaller than 12 px.
- Colour and contrast. All text meets the AA contrast ratios; controls and their outlines meet 3:1; nothing is conveyed by colour alone. Windows high-contrast mode keeps every control visible.
- Motion. Nothing moves on its own for more than a few seconds — the live dot and the player’s starting pulse stop by themselves. While an interview plays, the player’s playhead moves with the audio; Pause stops it. With “reduce motion” set in your system there is no animation at all: no sliding bars, no pulse, no shimmer.
- Touch. Buttons, play controls and menu rows are at least 44 by 44 points; standalone text links are at least 24 points tall with 8 points between neighbouring targets (WCAG 2.5.8). Links inside a sentence are part of the text.
Audio, transcripts and captions
The show is a radio programme, so the content is audio. Transcripts are being added interview by interview: where one exists it is on the interview’s page under the player, transcribed automatically and labelled “uncorrected” until a person has checked it. Not every interview has one yet — we are extending coverage, and older interviews are being transcribed. The live Sunday broadcast is the station’s own stream ( Listen live ) and has no captions; the interviews from each Sunday are published on this site afterwards.
Known limitations
- Automated transcripts can misname a guest or a place until they are corrected; each one says so at the top.
- Some archive interviews play through a third-party player (SoundCloud, Megaphone) whose controls we do not design; the hosting service is named above each one.
- If the browser refuses to start the audio from our play button, the Spreaker player is shown instead; it is Spreaker’s interface, and the interview is the same.
- Guest portraits are decorative — the guest’s name and title are always next to them as text.
Tell us
If a page, the player or the sign-up form is hard to use with your equipment, tell us what you were trying to do, the page address, and the browser and assistive technology you use. We aim to reply within five business days and to fix what we can in the next release.
Contact us and mention accessibility in your message so it reaches the right person.
About this statement
Last reviewed against WCAG 2.2 AA with automated checks on every template at phone and desktop sizes, a keyboard-only walk of every page including the player and the menu, contrast measurement of every text style in use, and screen-reader tree reviews for VoiceOver and TalkBack.