Accessibility · Statement
What we measured, and where this site still falls short.
DysNet exists for people with a physical difference, so a site our own members struggle to operate would contradict the point of it. We hold www.dysnet.org to WCAG 2.2, level AA, whether or not the law requires that of an association our size. This page says what we tested, what passed, and what did not.
Statement of 17 September 2026, written from a run over all 24 pages of the site on that date.
01 · The measurements
What we tested, and what came back.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Text alternatives | 31 images, every one carrying alt text. |
| Names of controls | 2,224 links and 239 buttons, every one with a name a screen reader can announce. |
| Headings | One h1 per page, and no level skipped anywhere. |
| Landmarks | Every page carries a main landmark and a skip link before it. |
| Tables | All 7 data tables use real header cells with a scope. |
| Contrast | 32 distinct colour, size and weight combinations on the most colour-heavy page, none below the AA threshold. |
| Target size | 397 controls on that same page, every one at least 24 by 24 pixels. |
| Keyboard | Focus is always visible, as a 3-pixel outline. Nothing needs a drag, a double-click or a steady hand. |
| Motion | Animation stops when your system asks for reduced motion. |
| Changing figures | When a filter changes a count, the new figure is announced rather than silently repainted. |
Two of those results came from fixes made on the day of this statement: the target-size floor, and the announcement of filter counts. We publish the date so you can hold the claim to it.
02 · Shortfalls
Where it does not reach the standard.
- The maps are drawn, not written. A screen reader cannot read the points plotted on the world map, and no alt text would carry a map honestly. Everything the maps show exists in text on the same pages, in the epidemiology tables, the care-centre list and the registry list, and in the data file that each register page offers for download.
- Our PDFs are not tagged. The five demands, and the briefs we publish for boards, are laid out for print rather than marked up for a screen reader. The same content sits in HTML on the Voice pages. Ask us and we will send you any of it as plain text.
- The site is in English only. For a network whose members are German, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and Norwegian, that is an accessibility barrier as real as any technical one, and we know it.
- No independent audit has been commissioned, and we have not tested with every assistive technology. What is above was measured by our own tools, which find what they are built to find and no more.
- There is no easy-read version and no sign-language version of the main pages.
03 · Tell us
If something here blocks you.
Write to info@dysnet.org and say what you were trying to do and what stopped you. You do not need technical words for it, and telling us which page it was is enough to start. We answer within 10 working days, and where we cannot fix something quickly we will say so and send you the content another way.
If an assistive technology of yours behaves differently from the ones we tested, that is worth telling us too. We would rather hear it from you than keep publishing a statement that is true only of our own machines.