Accessibility

What we aim for

We build towards the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 at level AA. That is the standard most public bodies are held to, and it is a reasonable bar for a site anyone might land on from a search result.

We are not claiming full conformance. Claiming it without an audit to back it up would be a promise we could not keep.

What is already in place

• Every page is delivered as real HTML from the server, so it works before any script has run, and with a screen reader that reads the document rather than the rendered view.
• Headings follow a real order on each page, so a screen reader’s heading list is a usable table of contents rather than a flat run of text.
• Interactive things are buttons and links rather than styled boxes, so they can be reached with the Tab key and used with Enter or Space.
• Images carry alternative text, and decorative ones are hidden from screen readers rather than read out as noise.
• The site reflows to a narrow window and to a zoomed page without content being cut off or trapped in a sideways scroll.
• Motion is kept small, and animation is reduced for anyone whose system asks for that.

What we know is imperfect

Some of what appears here comes from merchants and affiliate feeds rather than from us. Where a merchant supplies a logo or a product image with no useful description, we fall back to the store or product name. That is honest, but it is not always as descriptive as text we wrote ourselves.

Longer listing pages carry a lot of links. We are working on reducing how much a keyboard user has to move through before reaching the offers.

Advertising is served by Google and rendered inside frames we do not control, so its accessibility is not ours to fix.

Copying text

Selecting text with a mouse is restricted on this site. That restriction is deliberate, and it never applies to assistive technology. A screen reader reads the page as normal, the content is present in the HTML for any tool that reads it, and every form field stays fully selectable and editable.

Telling us about a problem

If something here is hard or impossible to use, we want to hear about it. Write to help@savingarena.com and describe what you were trying to do, which page you were on, and what happened instead. Mentioning your browser and any assistive software helps us reproduce it.

We read every one of these, and we will tell you what we find.