Accessibility at Colton Lane

Our aim

We want everyone to be able to browse, choose and buy from Colton Lane, whether they use a mouse, a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification or voice control. We work to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA, and treat anything that falls short as a defect rather than a nice-to-have.

What we have checked

• Text contrast meets AA in both the light and dark themes — body text at 18:1, secondary text at 7.7:1, and the oxblood accent at 13:1 against the page.
• Form fields and control edges meet the 3:1 ratio that non-text contrast requires, so a field's underline is visible against the page.
• Dialogs and the bag drawer keep keyboard focus inside them while open, close on Escape, and return focus to the control that opened them.
• A skip-to-content link is the first thing a keyboard user reaches, so the main navigation can be passed by.
• Images carry text alternatives, and decorative images are hidden from screen readers rather than described.
• Every form control has a label, and errors are announced rather than shown only in colour.

Known gaps

We would rather tell you what is not finished than claim more than we can evidence.

• We have not yet completed testing with screen readers — NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver — so we cannot claim conformance, only that the markup and contrast have been checked.
• Product photography comes from our suppliers and its alternative text is generic. We are working through the catalogue.
• Some product descriptions arrive from suppliers as unstructured text and may not use headings or lists where they would help.
• The store's filter sidebar has not been tested with voice control software.

Tell us about a barrier

If something on this site stopped you, email cs@coltonlane.com with the page and what happened. We aim to reply within two business days, and we will tell you what we are doing about it and when.

If you would rather place an order by phone or email than on the site, write to the same address and we will take it from there.

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