Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement covers sportingcabinetmakers.com. We want everybody to be able to read this site, including people using a screen reader, a keyboard only, magnification, or a phone in bright sunlight on a Tuesday. Below is what we have done, what we have tested, and — more usefully — what is still wrong.

What this accessibility statement is aiming at

We are working to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2, level AA — the W3C quick reference lists every criterion. That is the standard UK public sector bodies are held to, and while a private joinery company is not bound by it, it is the only sensible target and we would rather be measured against it than against nothing.

We believe this site is largely conformant with WCAG 2.2 AA. “Largely” is doing real work in that sentence, and the known problems section says exactly where it falls short.

What we have done

• Text you can actually read. Body text at 16.7 px equivalent with a 1.72 line height, in a serif face at a generous measure. Nothing is set in light grey on white.
• Contrast. Body text runs at about 14:1 against the page and captions at 6.4:1 — both well above the 4.5:1 required at AA, and above the 7:1 of AAA for body copy.
• Real headings. One H1 per page and a proper H2/H3 structure underneath it, so a screen reader user can jump between sections rather than listening to everything.
• Alternative text on every image, written to describe what is in the photograph rather than to repeat the caption or stuff a keyword.
• Tables marked up properly, with header cells identified, so a specification table can be navigated cell by cell.
• Keyboard operable throughout. No component requires a mouse and there are no keyboard traps.
• Text resizes to 200% without loss of content or function, and the layout reflows to a single column at 320 px width.
• No carousels, no auto-playing media, no motion. Nothing on this site moves by itself.
• No cookie wall. The consent banner can be declined and dismissed from the keyboard, and declining loses you nothing.
• Link text that means something. Very few “click here” links, and those we find we remove.

Known problems

Every accessibility statement that claims full conformance is either untested or untrue. These are ours, as at publication.

If something is not on that list and it is stopping you using the site, we have missed it. Please tell us — see below — and we will treat it as a fault rather than a suggestion.

How this was tested

Automated checking with axe-core and Lighthouse across a sample of pages covering every page template on the site — home, a category page, a deep product page, a guide, the contact page and the enquiry form. Manual keyboard-only testing of every interactive element. Contrast measured rather than eyeballed. Zoom tested to 400% and reflow tested at 320 px.

What we have not yet done is a full manual audit by a specialist, or testing with real users of assistive technology. Automated tools reliably catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need people. We would rather say that than imply a level of assurance we have not bought.

PDFs and downloads

There are three downloads on this site: the gun cabinet specification sheet, the gun list form, and our collection PDF. All three exist because clients asked to take something away with them to compare against other makers.

If any of them is unreadable for you, ask and we will send the same content as plain text, large-print, or read it to you over the telephone. There is nothing in a PDF on this site that is not also somewhere on a web page, and where it is not, that is a fault of ours rather than a fact about the format.

Browsers, zoom and assistive technology

The site is built to work in current versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge, on desktop and on phones, and to degrade sensibly rather than break in older ones. It has been used successfully with VoiceOver on macOS and iOS and with NVDA on Windows. It has not been tested with JAWS, Dragon or switch access, and we would genuinely welcome hearing from anybody who uses those.

The whole site works with JavaScript disabled apart from the enquiry form, which needs it to submit. If that affects you, telephone or write instead and it will make no difference at all to how your enquiry is treated.

If the website will not do

Nothing on this site is a hoop you have to jump through. Everything on it — specifications, prices, the gun list process — can be done by telephone, by post, or in person at the workshop, and there is no advantage whatsoever in using the website. If you would prefer we sent printed drawings and a printed specification rather than PDFs, say so and we will.

The workshop at Mickfield is single-storey with level access from the yard and a hard-standing car park immediately outside. If you are visiting and want to know about access before you travel, telephone and ask; we would rather tell you honestly than have you make a wasted journey.

Telling us about a problem

Email enquiries@sportingcabinetmakers.com or write to Stonham Road, Mickfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 5LS, marked for the attention of the director. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do and what happened. We aim to reply within two working days and to fix, or give you a date for fixing, within a fortnight.

We would rather have a blunt message telling us something is broken than a polite one telling us nothing. Accessibility problems on a site like this are almost always oversights, and they get fixed when somebody points at them.

The legal position

As a private company we are not covered by the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, which is why this page is not written in the prescribed public sector wording.

We are, however, a service provider under the Equality Act 2010, which requires us to make reasonable adjustments so that a disabled person is not put at a substantial disadvantage. That duty is anticipatory: it applies before anybody asks. This accessibility statement, the known-problems list and the alternatives above are how we try to meet it, and if we are falling short we would like to know.

This accessibility statement was prepared in August 2026 and is reviewed annually, or whenever the site changes materially.