We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible. The content listed below is non-accessible content elements:
Captions (pre-recorded content)
Captions for pre-recorded video content (audio only) are not yet accessible or text alternatives such as a transcript. This also applies to our pre-recorded audio content.
This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
We plan to add captions and transcripts to all pre-recorded video content and audio content by 2026.
Audio description (pre-recorded content)
The way the content is presented affects its meaning, and a correct reading sequence is not programmatically determined. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria 1.2.3 and 1.2.5.
We plan to add audio description to all pre-recorded video content by 2026.
Non-text content
Some images on the website have alt text that is too long which can cause assistive technologies to truncate the description. As a result, users with disabilities may not receive the full information conveyed by the image. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 1.1.1.
We plan to review alt text description on images by the end of 2026.
PDFs and other documents
Some document formats such as PDF, MS Word and Excel may not be fully accessible. They are not accessible in a number of ways including missing text alternatives and missing document structure.
We plan to either fix these or replace them with accessible HTML pages.
Interactive games
Some of our interactive games are not accessible and fail the following success criteria:
- the page does not reflow when the viewport changes. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 1.4.10.
- the VoiceOver and tab options are hidden from view. This fails success criterion 2.1.1.
- the games rely on visual cues, i.e. shapes, colours, and size, to complete. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria success criteria 1.1.1, 1.3.1 and 1.3.3.
- some elements of the games do not use correct semantic markup, such as external links/buttons, to indicate functionality. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criterion 2.4.4.
- users must operate some games using only landscape desktops. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria success criterion 1.3.4.
- users must use the dragging movement to operate some games. This fails WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria success criterion 2.5.7.
Interactive Eatwell Guide
This resource was rebuilt with a new version launched in August 2026. This redevelopment addressed a number of usability and accessibility issues, however some parts of the game are not fully accessible as it fails the following success criteria:
- keyboard focus at high levels of zoom. When the game is viewed at 400% zoom or on a small viewport, the layout reflows and some elements appear in a different visual order. The keyboard focus order does not always follow this presentation. This fails WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.4.3 – Focus Order (Level A).
- game instructions at high levels of zoom. After a keyboard user selects an item, they need to use the arrow keys to choose an area of the graph in which to place it. At 400% zoom and on smaller screens, the instructions explaining this interaction may be outside the visible area when they are needed. This can make the next step of the game difficult to discover for keyboard users and people using screen magnification. This issue is closely related to the focus-order problem described above.
- score visibility at high levels of zoom. At 400% zoom and on smaller screen sizes, the score bar may move outside the visible area of the screen. Users can access the score by scrolling vertically, but this means they may need to move away from the game area to check their score before returning to continue playing. The game content itself reflows and remains available through vertical scrolling, so we have not identified this behaviour alone as a failure of WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.10 – Reflow.
