Accessibility Statement
Soda’s commitment to accessibility
Soda aims to practice what we preach and put accessibility at the heart of everything we do. This requires a process of ongoing reflection and improvement and can’t be done alone. We seek to work in collaboration with others; to design with diverse communities to ensure our work is inclusive, accessible and equitable. With radical access as our North Star, we go beyond questions of compliance and minimum accessibility requirements to ask questions about how we can bring joy, pride and justice to our work.
What do we mean by accessibility?
Accessibility ensures inclusion
There are many ways that people relate to accessibility. When we are using it we are talking about ensuring that people are not excluded from using something as a result of their disability, chronic illness or neurodivergence.
Accessibility empowers people
Accessibility ensures that everyone can accomplish tasks with the same level of ease, regardless of whether or not they have a disability. We think this is done by empowering people to be independent and by avoiding the frustration that comes with poorly designed or implemented products, services or systems.
Accessibility centres lived experience
We intentionally take a broad lens to the question of accessibility. This means centring the lived experience of disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent people, as well as those who experience exclusion as a result of race, religion, ethnicity, class, gender identity or sexual orientation, or those who exist at an intersection of multiple forms of exclusion.
Soda's Website
This website is run by soda. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate the website using just a keyboard
- navigate the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
- navigate a page using headings throughout our written content. We also use plain English principles to make our content clear and easy to understand.
- navigate our website with assistive technology via embed landmarks and ARIA functionality.
In addition to this we strive to use language which is inclusive and made the text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
Our site is developed to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 Level AA and we keep the site under review to improve both its accessibility and usability.
We make use of third-party resources such as audio and video players to embed content in our website. Wherever possible we will ensure these are conformant.
What we’re doing to improve accessibility
Preparation of this accessibility statement
This statement was prepared on 23 February 2023. It is reviewed regularly.