How accessible is this website?
Although we are doing our best to continually improve this website, we are aware some parts of the website are not fully accessible - please see the section in disproportionate burden for a detailed description of areas we would like to improve.
Reporting accessibility problems with this website
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please let us know by contacting contacting us at [email protected].
Compliance status
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard. (Opens in new tab)
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
Disproportionate burden
Our team go to great lengths to create a realistic online duplicate of the real Book of Remembrance. The pages from the book are scanned in our studios, are processed and are then uploaded to the online book of remembrance. This means we display real scans of the calligraphy and artwork present in the book, of which there are hundreds of pages and thousands of entries and artwork which frequently spans many volumes, sometimes dating back over 50 years. As a result of this, to transcribe every line of calligrpahy and describe every emblem for compatibilty with e-readers is unfortunately cost prohibitive.
However we are continually monitoring emerging technology which could potentially help automate this process. At present AI and OCR technologies are not at a suitable level of accuracy to be able to offer good transriptions of the calligraphy - let alone descriptions of the emblem artwork, however it is our goal to continually review and improve the websites and we hope this could be a possibility soon as these technologies improve in accuracy.
Should you have issues viewing your family entry and would like us to send you a digital transcript of this - please contact us on 0137 2274386 or at [email protected] and we will arrange to email you this.
Mobile Devices
As the website is a book of remembrance - for best experience we recommend that it is viewed and operated in landscape mode on mobile devices and tablets.
