accessibility

CSED Research & Analytics Wing wants everyone to be able to read, use and learn from this website, including people who use screen readers, keyboards, voice control, magnifiers, or who read more slowly or with less energy. This page explains what we have built in, how we check it, and how to tell us when something does not work.

Settings you can change

Open Accessibility settings with the round button on the edge of every page, the link at the bottom of every page, or by pressing A. Your choices are saved on your own device only. We do not collect them.

• Text and page size: four sizes, up to 150%.
• Reading support: roomier line spacing, wider letter and word spacing, and a dyslexia-friendly font.
• Colour: light, dark, or automatic (follows your device), plus high contrast, grayscale and link highlighting.
• Motion and media: calm motion (turns off animation), hide photos, a larger cursor and a reading guide.
• Listen: have a page or selected text read aloud, if your browser supports it.
• Quick profiles: Low vision, Easier reading, and Calm and focus.

Keyboard shortcuts

• / or Ctrl + K (⌘ + K on Mac): search the archive
• A: accessibility settings
• D: switch between light and dark
• T: back to top
• ?: show all shortcuts
• Esc: close a panel

Shortcuts never fire while you are typing in a box. The first two links on every page are “Skip to content” and “Open accessibility settings”. Your browser’s own zoom and your operating system’s reduced-motion and dark-mode settings are also respected.

The standard we aim for

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA.

How we have checked

• We ran automated WCAG checks on the home page, an article page, the mobile menu and the accessibility settings panel, in light, dark and high-contrast modes. These found no issues.
• We tested that the pages do not scroll sideways on screens from 320 pixels wide upwards, at every text size.
• We tested keyboard use, including skip links, focus order and closing panels with Esc.

What we have not done yet: automated checks find only some problems. We have not yet tested with screen reader users or other people who rely on assistive technology. Until we have, please treat our compliance as a goal, not a guarantee.

Known limitations

• Reports and other files we publish (for example PDFs) may not be fully accessible. If you cannot use one, ask us and we will send a different format.
• Some older posts may have photos without descriptions, or tables that are hard to follow with a screen reader. We are fixing these as we find them.
• Read aloud depends on the voices installed on your device. Bangla voices are not available on every device.
• Embedded content from other websites, such as videos, is outside our control.

Tell us about a barrier

If something is hard to use, we want to know. Please tell us which page it is, what you were trying to do, and what device, browser or assistive technology you were using. You do not need to explain why you need it to work.

• Use our contact page, or
• email EDIT ME: accessibility@yourdomain.org

We aim to reply within EDIT ME: 5 working days. If you ask for content in another format, such as large print, plain text or an audio version, tell us what you need and we will do our best to provide it.

This statement was last reviewed on EDIT ME: date.