This archive exists for the whole family — including relatives in
their eighties and nineties, on whatever device they already own. Making
it comfortable for them makes it better for everyone, so accessibility
is a design goal, not an afterthought. We aim for
WCAG 2.1 AA.
What's in place
- Real text at a generous size, with high contrast on a calm
background, that scales cleanly when you zoom.
- Semantic headings, landmarks and labelled forms, so screen readers
and keyboards can navigate every core page.
- Everything works on a phone or tablet as well as a computer.
- Photographs are progressively getting written descriptions, from
family knowledge and from our own on-site tools.
Known limitations
- The interactive family tree is a visual chart. Every fact it shows
is also available as plain text — each person's profile page lists
their parents, spouses, siblings and children as ordinary links, and
the search works entirely in text.
- Many items are scans of historical papers — handwriting, old
typefaces, faded ink — and don't yet have transcripts. Transcribing
them is ongoing, slow, careful work.
Tell us
If anything is hard to read, reach, or operate, we genuinely want to
know — signed-in members can use the Suggestions page, and anyone can
reply to an email from the archive. Accessibility fixes go to the front
of the queue.