Accessibility statement

The Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club wants everyone to be able to read these trip reports, including people who are blind or have low vision, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people who use only a keyboard, and people with learning or cognitive disabilities.

What we aim for

We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. The NZ Government web accessibility guidance sets that level for government sites, and Blind Low Vision NZ recommends WCAG 2.2. As a club we are not bound by the government standard but we use it as our benchmark. The site was checked with the axe accessibility checker and by keyboard on 2026-10-06. The findings and fixes are written up in docs/accessibility-review.md in the project files.

What works

• Every page can be used with a keyboard, and focus is always visible. There is a skip link to the main content.
• Text sizes are relative, so the page follows your browser's text size and zoom (checked at 200% zoom).
• Light and dark themes, and the site respects your reduced-motion setting.
• Forms have labels on every field and errors are announced to screen readers.
• Every map view has a list alternative: the Browse page list, and the place lists beside the map.
• There is no audio or video that plays automatically. (Some old reports link to videos on YouTube or Vimeo, which we do not control, and which may lack captions.)

Known limitations

• Scanned pages. Many older newsletter and journal reports are shown as pictures of the printed pages. A screen reader cannot read these. Under each set of scans is the machine-read (OCR) text, labelled as unproofread. It is often garbled. Volunteers are retyping these; the Needs a pair of eyes page lists them, scan-only reports first.
• OCR text. About 1,514 reports have text read by software from scans. It has not been proofread, so expect odd characters, split words and missing punctuation.
• Photo descriptions. Many photos from the club website have no description, or only a file name. Where the author wrote a caption we use it. You can suggest a description on the edit form.
• Maps. The map is a visual, pointer-driven tool. The same reports are available as lists. The map itself is only partly usable by keyboard; use the lists instead.
• Old wording. Reports are printed as written, so they contain historical terms and spelling that we have not changed.
• New Zealand Sign Language. The site is in English and te reo Māori greetings only. We do not have NZSL versions. Plain, short sentences are used for instructions. If NZSL content would help you, tell us.

Tell us about a problem

If something does not work for you, or you need a report in another format, please email chiefguide@wtmc.org.nz (the Chief Guide, the club's existing contact). Say which page you were on and what got in the way. Email is the contact, so you do not need to phone.

TODO for the owner: add how quickly the club will reply, and a name for the person who reads this mailbox.

You can also use the Suggest an edit button on a report to fix its text or describe its photos.

If you are not happy with our reply

You can take a complaint to the Human Rights Commission or the Ombudsman.