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FT Website Accreditation

Digital Accessibility Centre Certificate of Accreditation

Accreditation Certificate Number:

FT-Main/26

Client:

Financial Times

Project:

https://www.ft.com/

Certificate issue date:

Certificate expiry date:

Certificate status:

Platform:

Desktop and Mobile

Certification

To achieve certification each website undergoes a manual technical compliance review against WCAG 2 to level AA.

The website underwent both a technical compliance audit and robust end to end testing by users with a wide range of disabilities including blind, low vision, dyslexia, colour blindness, mobility impairments, learning difficulties, Deaf, Asperger and anxiety and panic disorder.

All testing is carried out in line with relevant platform specific guidelines, and where applicable, conforms with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Testing also conforms to Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Known Issues

We are aware of several outstanding accessibility issues within the cookie preferences modal, which is provided by a third-party supplier.
These issues include:

  • Dynamic updates to search results within the modal are not announced to screen reader users, meaning changes such as the number of vendors displayed may not be conveyed without additional navigation.
  • When the page is viewed at high levels of magnification or within a narrow viewport (for example, 320px wide), some content within the cookie modal is not fully accessible without scrolling in multiple directions.
  • Certain interactive controls within the modal, such as the options to switch between “User consent” and “Legitimate interest”, are built using non-semantic elements and do not correctly communicate their role, state, or interactivity to assistive technologies.
  • Some non-interactive elements, including headings and paragraphs, have been added to the keyboard tab order unnecessarily, which can make keyboard and screen reader navigation more difficult and time-consuming.
  • Heading structures within the modal are not always logical or consistent, which may affect how screen reader users understand the relationships between sections.
  • Some visually presented lists are not marked up programmatically as lists, meaning the same structure and meaning are not available to users of assistive technologies.

In addition, advertisements displayed on the site are delivered by third-party providers. The Financial Times do not have direct control over the content, behaviour, or underlying mark-up of these advertisements, and as a result some ad content may not fully meet accessibility standards.

These issues are outside of The Financial Times direct control, but they are actively engaging with third-party providers to raise them and seek improvements.

Journey

Journey 1 – Not Signed in 

  1. Homepage
    https://www.ft.com/
    1. Test the page
  2. EU launches Brexit legal action against UK
    https://www.ft.com/content/80670e39-1b23-4714-a945-c3b0e3dd9b2f
    1. Test the page
  3. Manage Cookies
    https://www.ft.com/preferences/manage-cookies
    1. Test the modal

Journey 2 – Signed in

  1. Sign in
    https://accounts.ft.com/login
    1. Email address
      Enter: _______________________________________
    2. Select ‘Next’
    3. Password
      Enter: ________________ DACpassword123
    4. Ensure the ‘Keep me signed in’ checkbox has been selected
    5. Select ‘Sign in’
  2. Quick and easy start with myFT Feed
    https://www.ft.com/myft
    1. Select the ‘Feed’ link in the sub navigation
    2. Test the updated content
  3. Streaming services
    https://www.ft.com/stream/48cfb3f7-987a-4c22-85cb-a380301cbcfd
    1. Test the page
  4. FT Digital Edition   Removed from scope and testing.
    https://www.ft.com/todaysnewspaper
    1. Test the page 
  5. World
    https://www.ft.com/world
    1. Test the page
  6. UK
    https://www.ft.com/world-uk
    1. Test the page
  7. Companies
    https://www.ft.com/companies
    1. Test the page
  8. Technology
    https://www.ft.com/technology
    1. Test the page
  9. Crypto
    https://www.ft.com/cryptofinance
    1. Test the page
  10. Markets
    https://www.ft.com/markets
    1. Test the page
  11. Climate Capital
    https://www.ft.com/climate-capital
    1. Test the page
  12. Opinion
    https://www.ft.com/opinion
    1. Test the page
  13. Work & Careers
    https://www.ft.com/work-careers
    1. Test the page
  14. Life & Arts
    https://www.ft.com/life-arts
    1. Test the page
  15. HTSI
    https://www.ft.com/htsi
    1. Test the page
  16. FT Alphaville
    https://www.ft.com/alphaville
    1. Test the page
  17. Moral Money
    https://www.ft.com/moral-money
    1. Test the page
  18. Letters to the Editor
    https://www.ft.com/letters
    1. Test the page
  19. Tim Bradshaw
    https://www.ft.com/tim-bradshaw
    1. Test the page
  20. The UK energy crisis is a burden of war   Removed from scope and testing.
    https://www.ft.com/content/441bb5c8-4afe-4463-9320-6c64731f7170
    1. Test the page
  21. Special Reports
    https://www.ft.com/reports
    1. Test the page
  22. Visual and data journalism
    https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
    1. Test the page
  23. Coronavirus: free to read
    https://www.ft.com/coronavirusfree
    1. Test the page
  24. Revolut under pressure from auditors after UK regulators find flaws   Removed from scope and testing.
    https://www.ft.com/content/6e7bca1a-f43a-45f1-a684-1f6cf1415e2c
    1. Test the page
  25. Tesla will ‘try a little advertising’, Elon Musk says
    https://www.ft.com/content/259a825f-bca3-4e8c-bd22-5b9cfeadf0a2
    1. Test the page
  26. How history caught up with my Russian academic friends
    https://www.ft.com/content/6153f76e-eb8c-494b-8f81-123617f5dddb
    1. Test the page
  27. A year under the Taliban
    https://www.ft.com/content/e8554607-38bb-4fb5-8c8a-ae642cb4d9b3
    1. Test the page
  28. The village wedding caught in the Taliban’s battle for Kabul
    https://www.ft.com/content/c47f75e1-c822-4bb0-9d2b-18c808ee571c
    1. Test the page
  29. Coronavirus: Connecticut, Kansas, Mississippi and DC speed up vaccine rollouts - as it happened
    https://www.ft.com/content/bd734008-9355-42f3-a0dc-38988d5a9a67
    1. Test the page
  30. Loneliness and me
    https://www.ft.com/content/408afd90-7f25-49b9-a10d-253c5b29e743
    1. Test the page
  31. Quick and easy start with myFT Feed (already tested)
    https://www.ft.com/myft/following
    1. Select some topics (Note: Some topics may have already been selected and if that is the case you will be presented with a ‘Topics you follow’ page instead which also needs to be tested)
    2. Select ‘Manage topics’
    3. Topics you follow
    4. Test the page
  32. Saved Articles
    https://www.ft.com/myft/saved-articles
    1. Test the page
  33. Recommended for you
    https://www.ft.com/myft/explore
    1. Test the page
  34. Newsletters
    https://www.ft.com/newsletters
    1. Test the page
  35. Contact Preferences
    https://www.ft.com/myft/alerts
    1. Test the page

Disclaimer:

This certificate was issued on the and represents the state of the pages audited on this date. Any further changes after the accreditation date are not covered by this certificate.

Additionally, any pages/areas of the website not listed the above scope of testing are also not covered by this certificate as we cannot guarantee their accessibility state.

We audit against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines V2.2 level A and level AA to test how accessible the website is, using theWebsite Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) to evaluate conformance.