Accessibility statement

PathologyLabTraining is run by Elohim Solutions Ltd. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website, and we work to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 at level AA.

How conformant this website is

This website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. Partially conformant means some parts do not fully conform. The failures we know about are listed below, and we are fixing them.

We do not claim that fixing any of this is a disproportionate burden. Everything listed here is work we intend to do.

How we tested

We test in two ways, and both have limits we are honest about.

• Automated testing, 23 September 2026. We run the axe accessibility engine against the built site on 46 pages, covering the public pages, every laboratory information system and virtual laboratory a learner can open, and the dashboards an institution's staff use. Of those, 38 had no serious or critical issue and 8 did. This testing was carried out by our own development team, not by an independent auditor.
• Manual review by our team. We reviewed keyboard operation, drag-based exercises, form error handling and how results are announced. The findings are listed under "what automated testing misses" below.
• Not yet done. We have not commissioned an independent accessibility audit, and we have not tested systematically with screen-reader users. Both are planned. Until they happen, treat this statement as our own assessment. The generated quote and invoice PDFs have not been tested for accessibility.

Failures found by automated testing

Each entry names the success criterion it fails, what is wrong, and where. Counts are the number of page elements affected at the last measurement.

What automated testing misses

These came out of manual review and are not detected by the scan above.

• 2.5.7 Dragging Movements (AA, new in WCAG 2.2). Several exercises are completed by dragging: the fishbone cause-and-effect diagram, specimen processing and dissection, waste segregation and sharps classification, the order-of-draw challenge, and the virtual microscope. Since 23 September 2026 every drag exercise also offers a keyboard alternative (select the item, then select where it goes, with each step announced), and the virtual microscope pans with the arrow keys and recentres with Home. An automated test completes an exercise end to end without dragging, so this cannot silently regress. The independent audit we plan will check these alternatives with screen readers, which is a different and deeper test.
• 4.1.3 Status Messages (AA). When a simulation returns a result, a validation verdict or a flag, the change is shown visually. The shared exercises, the hands-on simulation engine, the hint panel and the haematology validation checklist now announce it. Of 592 training screens that show a verdict, 339 still do not announce it at all and a further group announce it only as a passing notification.
• 3.3.1 Error Identification (A) and 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (A). Many forms show validation errors next to the field visually without programmatically tying the message to the input, and some labels are not associated with their control.
• 2.1.1 Keyboard (A). Cards, rows and tiles across the app previously responded only to a mouse click, and the immunology module's accordion headers were the largest single group. On 23 September 2026 these were given keyboard equivalents: a shared pattern giving each a tab stop, Enter/Space activation and a visible focus state, with the accordion headers rebuilt as real headings containing buttons. Anything the sweep missed is for the planned independent audit to find: keyboard coverage of the generated laboratory cases has not been verified by an independent party.
• 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) (A). When you record a practice answer and play it back, there is no caption track. The recording is your own and is never transcribed by us, so there is nothing to caption it from. This is a known exception rather than something we are fixing.

What already works

• A skip-to-content link on every page.
• Semantic landmarks and headings for screen-reader navigation.
• Menus, dialogues and tabs built on accessible primitives with keyboard support.
• Text resizes with standard browser controls without loss of content.
• Animation respects your "reduce motion" setting.
• Scrollable result tables can be reached and scrolled with the keyboard.

Feedback and contact

If you find an accessibility problem, need something in a different format, or cannot complete a task, email [email protected]. We aim to respond within 5 working days. Tell us the page and what you were trying to do, and we will tell you whether we can fix it and when.

Enforcement

The Equality and Human Rights Commission enforces the Equality Act 2010 in England, Scotland and Wales. If you are not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service at equalityadvisoryservice.com. In Northern Ireland, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland enforces the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; contact it at equalityni.org.

A note for institutions

Universities and NHS organisations are public sector bodies under the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018, and remain responsible for the accessibility of services they buy. This statement is written so your accessibility lead can see exactly what conforms, what does not, and how it was measured. We will share the underlying test results on request.