ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

Loungest Limited wants LoungeTV.co.uk to be usable by the widest possible audience, whatever technology or ability a viewer brings to it.

Conformance status

This site is built to target the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. We consider it partially conformant: most of the site meets the standard, and the exceptions we know about are listed under Known limitations below. We have not commissioned an independent audit.

What we have built in

• Every page starts with a skip link straight to the main content.
• All functionality works from the keyboard alone: the menu, the watch button, the consent controls and every link on the page.
• Body and interface text meets or exceeds the AA contrast ratio of 4.5 to 1 against its background, and interface controls meet 3 to 1.
• Visible focus outlines are never removed.
• Every image carries alt text, or an empty alt attribute where it is decorative, and every embedded frame carries a title.
• Motion is limited to short entrance transitions, and all of it stops for visitors whose system asks for reduced motion.
• Page structure uses real headings in order, landmarks, and lists.

The accessibility toolkit

The button in the bottom corner of every page opens a toolkit that adjusts the site to your needs. It offers high contrast and monochrome modes, a reading guide, a large cursor, adjustable text size, increased line height and letter spacing, a more readable typeface, link highlighting, a stronger focus indicator, a control to pause motion, and a read-aloud option that uses your browser's speech engine. Your choices are stored in your browser and reapplied on your next visit. The toolkit is available on every page of this site.

Known limitations

Two parts of this site are supplied by other companies inside embedded frames. We cannot restyle or re-engineer what happens inside them:

• The video player is served from Cloudflare Workers. Its controls are keyboard reachable and labelled, but its colour scheme, its wording and its internal markup are set by the provider, not by us. The high contrast mode in our toolkit cannot reach inside it.
• The contact form is served by TapTheNfc.com. It follows this site's dark theme, but its field labels, error messages and focus behaviour are set by that provider rather than by us. We have measured two contrast failures inside it that we cannot correct from outside the frame: the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use links in the consent line sit at 3.2 to 1, and the red asterisk marking required fields sits at 3.6 to 1, where Level AA asks for 4.5 to 1. The asterisk is not the only indicator of a required field, so no information is carried by colour alone. If the form is a barrier for you, write to the address in our Terms of Use instead and we will take your enquiry that way.

We have raised both of these with the suppliers concerned.

Telling us about a problem

If you hit a barrier anywhere on this site we want to hear about it, and we will treat it as a fault to be fixed rather than a request. Use our contact form, and if the form itself is the barrier, the address in our Terms of Use reaches the same people.

Please describe the page, what you were trying to do, and the assistive technology or browser you were using. We aim to reply within five working days.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can escalate the matter to the Equality Advisory and Support Service in the United Kingdom, or to the equivalent body where you live.

Technical detail

This statement applies to loungetv.co.uk and every page on it. The site is a set of static HTML pages and relies on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Where JavaScript does not run, all content and navigation remain readable and usable; only the accessibility toolkit and the consent controls need scripting. The video player is an embedded frame and needs scripting to play.