Accessibility statement

Last updated: 4 August 2026.

Our commitment

We want Simple MTD to be usable by everyone, including people who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard only, zoom the page, or have a cognitive or motor disability. We're aiming to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 at level AA across both this marketing site and the Simple MTD app.

What we've checked

On 4 August 2026 we ran a structured audit against one representative page of every distinct template — marketing (home, pricing, both interactive tools, a guide article, a comparison page, and all four legal/policy pages) and the app (sign-in, dashboard, a business's record list, the CSV import flow, the submission review screen, and billing). For each page we programmatically checked, against the live site: colour contrast of every visible text element against its effective background (WCAG's own relative-luminance formula, at the correct 4.5:1 / 3:1 threshold for text size and weight), heading order and the presence of a single h1, every image for alt text, every form control for an associated label, landmark regions (header/nav/main), and every link or button for discernible text.

The marketing site came back clean on every page checked — no contrast, heading, alt-text, or labelling issues found. The app audit found and fixed three real issues: the sign-in page had no landmark regions (it rendered outside the app's shared layout), the CSV import file input had no accessible label, and the per-row controls in the transactions table (the category picker in CSV import preview, the "Remove" button) had no way for assistive technology to tell one row's control from another's. All three are fixed and verified live.

What we've done so far

• All pages use semantic HTML (proper heading structure, landmark regions, labelled form fields) rather than generic div-based markup
• Every page (marketing and app) is keyboard-navigable; nothing relies on hover-only or mouse-only interaction
• Colour is never the only way information is conveyed (for example, obligation status shows as text, "Open" / "Fulfilled", not just a coloured badge)
• All user-facing copy is written in plain UK English at roughly an age-12 reading level, with no unexplained accounting or tax jargon (CLAUDE.md's copy rule)
• Forms show their labels directly (not placeholder-only), and error messages describe the problem in plain language

What we know still needs work

• No testing has been done with an actual screen reader (VoiceOver, NVDA, or JAWS) — the 4 August audit checked semantic structure and labelling programmatically, which assistive technology depends on, but isn't a substitute for testing with real screen reader software
• The audit checked one representative page per template, not every individual page — for example, one of our twelve guide articles was checked in depth, not all twelve individually, since they share the same underlying template
• The app doesn't yet have a documented approach for reduced-motion or high-contrast user preferences

Reporting a problem

If you find something on this site or in the Simple MTD app that's hard to use because of a disability, please email hello@simple-mtd.co.uk and tell us which page and what happened. We'll do our best to fix genuine accessibility problems promptly and will get back to you.

Enforcement procedure

If you contact us about an accessibility problem and aren't happy with our response, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).