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Accessibility Statement

Last updated: 8 July 2026

Money Owl should work for everyone: keyboard users, screen-reader users, people who zoom to 200%, people on old phones, and people who simply find low-contrast grey-on-grey text as annoying as we do. This page says what we aim for, what we have actually tested, what is still broken, and how to tell us when something fails you.

What we aim for (WCAG 2.2 AA)

Our target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. In practice that shapes the site like this:

  • Pages use semantic HTML: real headings in order, real lists, real tables with header rows, and landmarks a screen reader can navigate by.
  • Every meaningful image carries alt text. Decorative images are marked so screen readers skip them.
  • The site works with a keyboard alone, and the light and dark themes are built with contrast in mind.
  • Charts in articles come with the underlying point stated in the text, so the information is not locked inside an image.
  • Calculators are plain HTML forms with labelled inputs, not canvas widgets.

We do not claim full conformance. The honest label for the site today is partially conformant: most of it meets WCAG 2.2 AA, and the parts that do not are listed below.

What we have tested

In July 2026 we ran automated Lighthouse accessibility audits on the five main page templates, on desktop and mobile:

  • Homepage: 100/100
  • Article pages: 93/100
  • Calculator (tools) pages: 100/100
  • Policy pages, like this one: 100/100
  • Contact page: 100/100

Automated checks catch roughly a third of real accessibility problems, so we treat these scores as a floor, not a medal. Manual testing with a screen reader is on the to-do list and this page will say so when it has happened.

Known gaps

Two issues found in the July 2026 audit are still open, both on article pages:

  1. Contrast in embedded calculator results. The result panel of calculators embedded inside articles renders some text below the AA contrast ratio.
  2. One unnamed header link. A link in the article-page header has no accessible name, so a screen reader announces it as just “link”.

Both are queued to be fixed. If you find something else, that is exactly what the feedback channel below is for.

The European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) does not currently oblige a site like this one to publish an accessibility statement: Money Owl is an editorial site with no e-commerce checkout, run by a microenterprise, and both of those keep it outside the Act’s covered-services list. We publish this statement anyway, because the point of accessibility is the readers, not the thresholds.

Tell us what is broken (feedback)

If any part of Money Owl does not work with your assistive technology, or you simply could not read or operate something, tell us:

Say which page, which device or assistive technology, and what went wrong. Accessibility reports go to the top of the pile and get read first.

Changes to this statement

We update this page when we run a new test, fix a listed gap, or find a new one. The date at the top is the version marker. When something changes, it gets a dated note here, not a quiet edit.