irish-finances.com is committed to making the site usable by everyone, including people who use assistive technologies. This statement is published under the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023, which implements the European Accessibility Act in Ireland.
Conformance target
We aim for full conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, which is the standard required by EN 301 549 and recognised by the EAA. WCAG 2.2 conformance is on our roadmap.
What we automatically test
On every code change, we run axe-core via Playwright across every page on the site, on both desktop and mobile viewports. The build fails if any "critical" or "serious" accessibility issue is detected. Specifically, we check for:
- Form labels and button names
- Colour contrast (target ratios: 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text)
- Heading order and landmark structure
- Alt text on meaningful images
- ARIA attributes used correctly
- Focus order and visible focus indicators
- No horizontal-overflow on mobile viewports
What we manually verify
- Keyboard-only navigation through every calculator's input flow
- Screen-reader pass on the salary, deemed-disposal, and CGT calculators (NVDA on Windows, VoiceOver on macOS)
- Skip-to-content link on long pages
- Error messages associated with the right form field
Known limitations
We try to ship without accessibility regressions, but the site is actively built. Current limitations to be aware of:
- Some interactive charts (the stacked-bar in the salary calculator, the comparison bars in the deemed-disposal tracker) are visual. We expose the underlying numbers in nearby text and tables, but screen-reader users may want to skip the chart and read the table instead.
- Date inputs use the native browser date picker. Behaviour varies slightly across browsers and assistive tech.
- Dark mode is currently disabled site-wide while we audit contrast on a manual basis.
If you hit a wall
If you can't access something — a calculator that won't keyboard-navigate, text that's hard to read, an error message that's not announced — we want to know. Email accessibility@irish-finances.com with:
- The page URL
- What you were trying to do
- What blocked you
- Your browser and assistive tech, if comfortable sharing
We aim to respond within 5 working days and to fix critical issues within 14 days.
Escalation
If you've reported an issue and aren't satisfied with our response, you can contact the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the market-surveillance authority for the EAA in Ireland), or the National Disability Authority.
Last audit
The site is continuously tested by automated tooling. The most recent end-to-end accessibility check ran on the build that deployed on 8 May 2026. The next manual screen-reader pass is scheduled for the launch milestone.