How we make the Cornerstone Pest Control website usable for everyone, and how to get help if something does not work for you.
We want everyone to be able to use this website. It is built to work with keyboards and screen readers, uses semantic HTML with proper headings and landmarks, provides text alternatives for meaningful images, respects reduced-motion preferences for animations, and maintains readable colour contrast.
We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. This is a young website and we are still improving it. If you find something that does not work for you, or you need information from this site in a different format, contact us at [email protected] or call 01737 452173 and we will help.
We review accessibility as part of every significant update to the site.
There is a Display options button in the corner of every page, and another at the bottom of this one. It opens a small panel of settings that change how this site looks on your device: text size, more space between lines and letters, a simpler typeface, higher contrast, solid rather than frosted panels, a stronger outline around whatever you have selected, underlined links, less movement, and larger areas to tap.
We added it because a website has one appearance that has to work for everybody, and no single appearance does. Someone reading on a phone in bright sunlight, someone whose eyes tire by the end of the day, someone who finds movement on screen uncomfortable, and someone using a keyboard rather than a mouse all need something slightly different from the same page. Rather than guess which of those you are, we let you say.
It is likely to help if you have low vision, if you read more comfortably with more spacing or a plainer typeface, if movement on screen makes you feel unwell, if you use a keyboard and lose track of where you are on the page, or if a hand tremor makes small buttons hard to hit. You do not need any of those reasons to use it. If a setting makes this site easier to read, that is reason enough.
Your choices are remembered on the device you are using, in your browser's own storage. Nothing is sent to us and we cannot see what you have set. The panel has a Reset all button that removes the record entirely, and the Cookie Policy describes exactly what is stored.
What this panel is not. It is not an accessibility overlay, and it is not what makes this site accessible. It changes nothing about the underlying page: it does not alter what a screen reader announces, it does not add descriptions to images, and it does not change how anything is coded. The accessibility of this site is the work described above, and that work has to stand on its own with every one of these settings switched off. If this panel were ever the answer to whether the site is accessible, the answer would be no.
These settings also do not replace the accessibility features built into your own browser, phone or computer. Those apply to every website you visit and can usually do considerably more than we can, including magnification, screen readers and system wide colour changes. If you rely on those, this site is built to work with them.