Accessibility statement

We want every visitor to be able to find what they need on this website, book with confidence, and enjoy Wide Horizons. This page explains how accessible the site is, what we know is not yet right, and how to tell us if something gets in your way.

The standard we work to

This website aims to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA — the international standard for web accessibility, and the level most widely used as a benchmark in the UK.

We are not a public body, so we are not required by law to publish this statement. We publish it because you are entitled to know what to expect before you spend your time here, and because saying what is not working is the only honest way to ask you to tell us about the rest.

What you should be able to do

• Use the whole site with a keyboard, without a mouse. Every link, button and form field can be reached by tabbing, and whatever you are on is clearly outlined.
• Skip straight to the main content with the link that appears when you first press Tab.
• Zoom in to 200%, or change your browser's text size, without text disappearing or overlapping.
• Read the site on a narrow screen — at 320 pixels wide, roughly a small phone held upright — without scrolling sideways.
• Turn off animation. If your device is set to reduce motion, the site respects that and stops content sliding or fading in.
• Use a screen reader to move by heading, landmark or link. Every page has one main heading, properly nested sub-headings, and named sections.
• Read images. Photographs that carry information have written descriptions; purely decorative ones are hidden from screen readers so they do not interrupt you.

Colour is never the only way we tell you something, and we have checked every text and background combination in our own designs against the contrast the standard requires.

What is not right yet

We would rather list these than let you find them.

The ticket checkout is not ours. Tickets are sold through Ticket Tailor, which opens in its own window and is outside our control. We have not been able to test it to the same standard as the rest of the site. If you have any difficulty buying a ticket, please contact us and we will take your booking another way — you should not have to fight the checkout to come to the Show.

The cookie banner is not ours either. The consent banner is provided by Cookiebot. We have set it up to be as unobtrusive as we can, but its own keyboard behaviour is not something we control.

Some in-page links scroll further than they need to. Following a link to a section further down a page can leave the heading lower on screen than it should be. Everything is reachable; it is untidy rather than broken, and we are fixing it.

A few small things are on our list, none of which should stop you doing anything: a required field is marked with an asterisk that is read out as “star” by some screen readers, and one logo in the mobile menu is described by its filename rather than left silent.

We have not yet tested the site with every combination of browser and screen reader, and we have not tested at very high zoom levels on a large screen. We will keep testing, and reports from real visitors are worth more to us than any audit.

Information in another format

If you need anything on this site in a different format — large print, plain text, or read aloud — please ask. We will do our best to provide it, and we will tell you honestly if we cannot.

If you would like help booking, or would prefer to book by talking to a person rather than using the website, contact us and we will arrange it.

Getting to the Show itself

This page is about the website. For accessible parking, step-free routes, accessible toilets and assistance dogs at Lincolnshire Showground, see Plan your visit, or contact us and we will answer directly.

Tell us about a problem

If something on this site gets in your way, please tell us. It is genuinely useful, and it is the fastest way for us to fix it.

Email events@nafas.org.uk and, if you can, include:

• the address of the page you were on
• what you were trying to do
• what happened instead, and what you were using — a screen reader, a keyboard, a phone, zoom

You do not need to know the technical words for any of it. “The text was too pale to read on my phone” tells us everything we need.

We aim to reply within five working days.

How we tested this site

The site was reviewed against WCAG 2.2 Level AA in two full passes, on 12 and 19 August 2026, by Digitotum, who built it. The review covered every page template, the site's stylesheet and JavaScript, and the pages as they are actually delivered to a browser — including the parts supplied by Umbraco Forms.

The findings from those reviews were fixed in August 2026 and the site was then tested again with the NVDA screen reader on 25 August 2026, working through the FAQs, the contact form, the page structure and the navigation.

Contrast ratios were calculated rather than estimated.