Accessibility Statement

Kulea Hive believes that access to information and to the services we offer online should not depend on a person's disability, the device they use, or the assistive technology they rely on. We treat accessibility as an ongoing responsibility rather than a one-off task, and we aim to build it into how we design, write and maintain the site rather than adding it afterwards.

We recognise that accessibility is never fully finished. Standards evolve, content changes, and new barriers can appear. We are committed to identifying and removing barriers over time, and to responding constructively when someone tells us that part of the site does not work for them.

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 at Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard most commonly referenced by accessibility law and policy internationally, and it is the target against which we assess our own work.

Aiming to meet a standard is not the same as having been independently certified against it. This statement records our own assessment of how far the site currently meets WCAG 2.1 AA. It has not yet been confirmed by a formal external audit — see "How we tested this website" below.

We have built a range of accessibility measures into the site. The most significant of these are:

Managing your privacy should be as accessible as reading our content. When you first visit the site, a first-party cookie banner offers clear choices — accept all, reject non-essential, or manage preferences — and a Privacy Preferences dialog remains reachable from the footer at any time so you can change your mind later.

We have designed these controls to be operable using a keyboard and to be understandable with a screen reader, including where the dialog opens, moves focus and closes. Analytics does not run until you have granted consent, so declining or ignoring the banner does not degrade your ability to use the site.

We have not yet had these consent controls independently tested against the full range of assistive technologies. If you find any part of the cookie banner or Privacy Preferences dialog difficult to use, please tell us using the contact details below — accessibility of the consent experience is a priority for us.

We aim for the site to work with recent versions of the major web browsers and with commonly used assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboard navigation.

We have not yet carried out structured testing across a defined matrix of browser and assistive-technology combinations. The specific combinations we have verified, and any that are known not to work well, are still to be confirmed: [PLACEHOLDER — list the browser and assistive-technology combinations tested, and any known incompatibilities].

We want to be open about where the site may not yet fully meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Because a formal audit has not yet taken place, the list below is provisional and based on our own review; it will be updated once the audit is complete.

Known or suspected issues and areas not yet audited: [PLACEHOLDER — list any known issues and not-yet-audited areas, for example third-party embedded content, PDF or other downloadable documents, complex interactive components, media without captions or transcripts, and any dynamic content that has not yet been assessed].

The accessibility measures described in this statement reflect our own internal assessment carried out during design and development. This has included attention to semantic structure, keyboard operability, focus visibility, reduced-motion support and colour contrast as the site was built.

A formal, independent accessibility audit is still pending: [PLACEHOLDER — formal audit pending; record who will carry out the audit, the method used, the WCAG version and level assessed, and the date it was completed]. Until that audit is complete, the conformance claims in this statement should be read as a self-assessment rather than an independently verified result.

If you need information from this website in a different format — for example accessible text, large print, or a format that works better with your assistive technology — please contact us and tell us what you need and which page or document it relates to. We will do our best to provide the information in a format that works for you.

The formats we can routinely provide, and any limits on what we can offer, are still to be confirmed: [PLACEHOLDER — confirm which alternative formats can be provided and any limitations].

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this website. If you encounter a barrier, find something difficult to use, or cannot access information you need, please tell us. Your feedback helps us find and fix problems we may not be aware of.

The most reliable way to reach us is through the Contact page on this website. When you get in touch, it helps if you can describe the problem, tell us the web address (URL) of the page concerned, and let us know the browser and any assistive technology you were using, so that we can reproduce and address the issue.

A dedicated accessibility contact address has not yet been confirmed: [PLACEHOLDER — confirm the accessibility contact email address]. Please note that the contact details shown elsewhere on the site are not yet fully harmonised, so the Contact page is the safest route until a single accessibility contact point is published.

We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports and requests for alternative formats promptly, and to keep you informed while we work on a resolution. The specific timeframe within which we aim to respond is still to be confirmed: [PLACEHOLDER — response timeframe, for example the number of working days within which we aim to acknowledge and to respond substantively].

If you are not satisfied with how we have responded to your report, please let us know so that we can try to put things right, and see "Enforcement and escalation" below.

If you have raised an accessibility problem with us and are not satisfied with our response, you may be able to escalate the matter to a relevant regulator or oversight body. The applicable accessibility regime and the body responsible for enforcement will depend on where the site is provided and used.

The relevant enforcement regime and escalation route have not yet been confirmed for Kulea Hive: [PLACEHOLDER — identify the relevant accessibility regime and the enforcement or escalation body, and how to contact them].

This website is provided by Kulea Hive, a nonprofit registered as a company limited by guarantee with the National Investment Board of Sierra Leone under company registration number SL060326KULEA29231. Our registered office is at 6 Sanders Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

General enquiries, accessibility feedback and requests for alternative formats can be made through the Contact page on this website.

We will review and update this statement as the site changes, as we complete accessibility testing, and as we resolve the limitations noted above. When a formal audit has been carried out, we will update the conformance claims and the "How we tested this website" section to reflect its findings.

This statement was last reviewed in July 2026. The date of the next planned review is still to be confirmed: [PLACEHOLDER — date of next planned review].