Making our careers site more accessible
We want everyone to have a great experience when visiting our careers site, including people using assistive technologies. In October 2025, we made some updates to improve accessibility across the site. These changes are part of our ongoing commitment to building a culture of everyday inclusion, and you can find out more about that on our D&I pages.
Spotted something we can improve on?
We know there’s always more we can do, so if you’ve got feedback to share, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch by emailing comms@theverygroup.com.
What’s changed? (October 2025)
Navigation updates
• Clearer labels across the top and sub-navigation
• A new “skip to main content” link
• Improved keyboard focus and tab ordering
• Better heading structure and visible focus styles
• Text positioned over images now has a solid background colour to improve legibility
Video updates
• Switched to a more accessible video player
• Improved play icon visibility
• Subtitles now appear by default
Content updates
• Updated page headings and heading level ordering to improve screen reader navigation
• Improved labels, buttons and borders for better clarity
• Enhanced FAQ layout and navigation for easier access via screen readers
Image updates
• Reviewed and updated alt-text across the site to provide more useful image descriptions
Animation and movement
• For site visitors with their operating system accessibility settings set to “prefer reduced motion”, we now disable animation effects on webpages
Improved use of headings in job description copy
• Previous use of bold text in job description copy to represent a heading has been replaced with true headings
Compliance and testing
We’re working to meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards.
Our accessibility testing includes:
• User testing with people with disabilities with the support of Fable
• Manual testing of keyboard navigation by our developers
• Testing key pages with Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader
• Scanning the website for missing alt-text on images
• Running Google Lighthouse tests on accessibility
• Running tests of AA WCAG 2.2 compliance using WAVE
This statement was last reviewed on 21 October 2025.
