Accessibility

Our aim

Long Trails should be usable by everyone who wants to plan a walk, whatever device or assistive technology they use. We work towards the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

What works today

• Every page can be read and navigated with a keyboard.
• Route pages state the distance, ascent and stages as text, not only on the map.
• Photos published by us carry a text description.
• Text can be resized with the browser; the page does not block zooming.

Known limitations

• The interactive map itself is visual. Everything the map shows about a route or hut is also available as text on that route or hut page, but tracing a line on the map is not possible without sight or a pointer.
• Some labels on map controls are still being improved for screen readers.
• Elevation profiles are drawn as charts; the numbers behind them are in the stage list.

Tell us

If something on this site is hard or impossible for you to use, write to hello@longtrails.org and say which page and what happened. We answer within two weeks and fix what we can.