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## What's new

- **An accessibility statement.** The Accessibility page on backed.giving, linked from the site
  footer, gives the WCAG 2.1 AA status of the Administrator, Applicant, Assessor and Verifier portals and
  the public pages. Today each partially conforms. This is our own assessment, dated
  7 November 2026: an independent audit has been commissioned and its results will replace it.
- **Known exceptions, with workarounds.** Each gap we know of is listed with its success
  criterion, where it shows up, how serious it is and what to do in the meantime, such as pressing
  Escape if the `/` key opens Search by accident.
- **A conformance report.** The Accessibility Conformance Report, in the VPAT 2.5 WCAG format,
  gives a result for each of the 50 Level A and AA success criteria. Download it as a PDF from the
  statement, or read it as a web page.
- **Tell us what does not work.** Email contact@backed.giving and we reply within five business
  days.