Accessibility Statement
BMS Building wants everyone to be able to use this website, and it is built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA. A full test against the standard has not been completed yet. The one known issue is the moving logo band on the homepage, and you can contact us by email or phone about anything.
Last updated: 2 November 2026
BMS BUILDING & GROUNDWORKS LTD wants as many people as possible to be able to use this website. We have built it to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 at level AA, which is the recognised international standard.
What that means in practice
The site is built so that you should be able to move through every page using a keyboard alone, use it with a screen reader, zoom in to 400 per cent without losing content, and read the text at the contrast levels the standard requires. Every page has a link to skip straight to the main content. Photographs have text descriptions, and the moving photographs at the top of the homepage have no sound and a button to pause them. All the words on the site are in the page itself, so it can be read with JavaScript switched off.
Display options, and why this site has them
There is a Display options button in the corner of every page, and another at the foot of every page. It opens a small panel of settings that change how this site looks on your device: text size, more space between lines and letters, a simpler typeface, higher contrast, solid rather than frosted panels, a stronger outline around whatever you have selected, underlined links, less movement, and larger areas to tap.
We added it because a website has one appearance that has to work for everybody, and no single appearance does. Someone reading on a phone in bright sunlight, someone whose eyes tire by the end of the day, someone who finds movement on screen uncomfortable, and someone using a keyboard rather than a mouse all need something slightly different from the same page. Rather than guess which of those you are, we let you say.
It is likely to help if you read more comfortably with larger text, more spacing or a plainer typeface, if movement on screen makes you feel unwell, if you use a keyboard and lose track of where you are on the page, or if small buttons are hard to hit. You do not need any of those reasons to use it. If a setting makes this site easier to read, that is reason enough.
Your choices are remembered on the device you are using, in your browser's own storage. Nothing is sent to us and we cannot see what you have set. The panel has a Reset all button that removes the record entirely, and our Cookie Policy describes exactly what is stored.
What this panel is not. It is not an accessibility overlay, and it is not what makes this site accessible. It changes nothing about the underlying page: it does not alter what a screen reader announces, it does not add descriptions to images, and it does not change how anything is coded. The accessibility of this site is the work described above, and that work has to stand on its own with every one of these settings switched off. If this panel were ever the answer to whether the site is accessible, the answer would be no.
These settings also do not replace the accessibility features built into your own browser, phone or computer. Those apply to every website you visit and can usually do considerably more than we can, including magnification, screen readers and system wide colour changes. If you rely on those, this site is built to work with them.
Known issues
The moving logo band on the homepage. Just below the opening photographs on the homepage, a band of accreditation and supplier logos scrolls sideways by itself. It has no pause button. It stops moving if you have asked your device to reduce motion, or if you turn on Reduce motion in Display options, and it pauses while the pointer is over it. Nothing in the band is a link or a button, so nothing in it can be selected with the keyboard, and the pause on hover does nothing on a touch screen. For a keyboard or touch screen user, Reduce motion is the only way to stop it. The standard asks for a way to pause anything that moves for more than five seconds (WCAG 2.2 success criterion 2.2.2, Pause, Stop, Hide), so this is a known exception. Our accreditations page has the details of our accreditations, and nothing on it moves.
We are not currently aware of any other part of this website that does not meet the standard. The full test described below has not been completed yet, so if you find something, please tell us.
If you need information in a different format
If you need anything on this site in a different format, such as large print, plain text, or read out to you over the phone, email us at info@bmsbuilding.uk or call 01923 700 649 and we will provide it. Tell us the format you need. We will reply within two working days, and tell you when you can expect it.
Telling us about a problem
If you find something on this website that you cannot use, please email info@bmsbuilding.uk or call 01923 700 649. Tell us the page and what happened, and we will look into it and come back to you.
How this site was tested
The colour contrast of every text and background pairing on the site was measured against the standard while the site was designed. A full test of the site, covering automated checking tools, keyboard only navigation, a screen reader, zoom and a reduced motion pass, has not been completed yet. When it has, we will record the date and what it covered here, and list anything it finds under Known issues.