Accessibility

Most of the people who travel with us are over fifty. Readable type, strong contrast and a site that works without a mouse are not an afterthought here — they are the reason the site looks the way it does.

What we have built in

• Body text starts at 18 pixels, not the usual 16, and it grows with the width of your screen. Nothing is set in small grey type.
• Every colour combination has been measured against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard rather than eyeballed. Twenty-three different pieces of text were sampled in a real browser on the page you are reading; all of them passed.
• Long passages sit on a light background. The site is mostly dark, which suits the photography, but light text on a dark ground is measurably harder to read for any length. Pages like this one flip to a cream background for that reason.
• You can use the whole site with a keyboard. Every link and control can be reached by tabbing, and the focus outline is never removed or hidden. A "skip to content" link is the first thing you reach on every page.
• Animation switches itself off. If your device is set to reduce motion, nothing on this site moves. Nothing flashes, and nothing plays automatically.
• The site works without JavaScript. If scripts are blocked or fail to load, every page still shows all of its content.
• Every photograph has a written description for screen readers, and every image has its dimensions declared so the page does not jump about while it loads.
• No text sits on a photograph without a shaded panel behind it, and no page scrolls sideways at any screen width from 320 pixels upwards.
• Headings are in order, so you can move through a page by heading and it will make sense.

How we check

We run an automated accessibility audit against every page of this site, on a desktop and a phone screen, using a real browser rather than a preview. We measure every text-and-background pair rather than trusting how it looks. We test the site with JavaScript switched off and with reduced motion switched on. Anything that fails is fixed before the work is called finished.

The last full check found no contrast failures, no missing image descriptions, no heading-order problems and no sideways scrolling at any of five screen widths.

What we have not done yet

A statement with nothing in this section is a statement nobody checked. These are the real gaps as at 12 August 2026.

• We have not yet tested on physical iPhone, iPad or Android hardware. Testing so far has been in a desktop browser at phone and tablet sizes, which catches layout problems but not everything a real device does.
• We have not yet had the site tested by somebody who uses a screen reader every day. Automated tools find perhaps half of what matters. They cannot tell you whether a page actually makes sense read aloud.
• Some photographs on the site are illustrative while we wait for the real ones. Their descriptions describe what is shown, not a specific named place.
• We have not assessed this site against the European Accessibility Act. We have built to WCAG 2.1 AA and are working towards 2.2, but we make no claim about that particular law and have not taken advice on whether it reaches us.

If something does not work for you

Please tell us, and please be specific — the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened. Tell us what you are using as well if you can: the browser, the device, and any assistive software. It makes the difference between a fix and a guess.

You can reach us through our enquiry page. If the form itself is the problem, say so in any way you can and we will come back to you another way.

We would rather hear about a barrier than not. If something on this site stopped you planning a journey, that is our failure and not yours.

Standard we are working to

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, level AA, with 2.2 as the target. We do not claim full conformance with either, because a claim of full conformance should rest on a formal audit by an independent tester and this site has not had one.