Accessibility

Last updated 2 October 2026

Tagged GU is built and run by one person. This statement describes what the site does today, what it does not do yet, and how to tell us when something gets in your way. We would rather be accurate about the gaps than claim a standard we have not tested against.

What we aim for

We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA as our reference. We have not commissioned a formal audit, so we do not claim conformance. We treat the guidelines as the target we build towards and the standard we fix against when something is reported.

What works today

• Keyboard. The site is navigable with a keyboard alone. Form fields, buttons, links and filters are reachable in order, and focused controls are given a visible outline rather than relying on the browser default.
• Screen readers. Pages use real headings, lists, labels and landmarks rather than styled div elements. Controls that are icons or abbreviations carry an accessible name, and expandable sections report whether they are open.
• Lot photographs are marked as decorative where the lot title sits directly beside them, so a screen reader announces the item once rather than reading a duplicate.
• Zoom and reflow. The layout is responsive and works down to a phone-width screen, so enlarging text or zooming the page does not cut content off or force sideways scrolling.
• Colour. Text is set against its background with contrast in mind, and no piece of information is conveyed by colour alone — authentication, photo-matching and sale status are all labelled in words as well.
• Plain language. Buttons say what they do, and errors say what went wrong and what to do about it.

What does not work yet

These are real and we know about them:

• No skip-to-content link. A keyboard or screen-reader user currently passes through the header and navigation on every page before reaching the results.
• The results table is dense. It carries many columns, and on a small screen it stacks rather than scrolling as a table, which changes the reading order. The card view is the easier of the two to navigate non-visually.
• Photographs have no descriptive text. The images come from the auction houses and we do not write descriptions of them, so a photograph conveys nothing to someone who cannot see it beyond the lot title and description shown alongside.
• Around a quarter of lots have no photograph at all. That is a limitation of what the auction houses published, not of the site, and those lots are labelled “No photo” rather than left blank.
• Motion preferences are not yet respected. The site uses very little animation, but it does not currently honour a system setting that asks for reduced motion.
• No formal audit or assistive-technology testing has been carried out.

Telling us about a problem

If any part of Tagged GU is difficult or impossible for you to use, please write to policy@taggedgu.com. It helps if you can say what page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what browser or assistive technology you were using — but write to us even if you cannot supply any of that.

We will acknowledge your message, tell you honestly whether and when we expect to fix the problem, and offer another way to get the same information in the meantime where one exists.

Changes to this statement

We will update this page as items move from the second list to the first, and as new features introduce new gaps. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.