Accessibility.
Bantu wants this website to be usable by as many people as possible, including people who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, magnification or other assistive technology. This statement sets out the standard Bantu is working to, what is known to fall short today, and how to tell us when something gets in your way.
Bantu’s commitment
People look for work in every kind of circumstance. A website that is hard to read, hard to navigate or impossible to use with assistive technology does not just inconvenience someone — it shuts them out of an opportunity. Bantu treats accessibility as part of doing recruitment properly, not as an optional extra.
Accessibility is considered during design, build and content work, and is reviewed when the site changes. Where something cannot be fixed immediately, Bantu will say so on this page and offer another way to get the same information or to apply.
The standard Bantu is working to
Bantu aims to meet Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, published by the World Wide Web Consortium. WCAG 2.1 AA is the level most commonly referenced in public sector and procurement requirements internationally, and it is the target Bantu is designing and building towards.
This is a target rather than a certification. The site has not yet been independently audited against WCAG 2.1 AA, and Bantu does not claim conformance until that assessment has been carried out.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: whether an independent accessibility audit will be commissioned before launch, who will carry it out, and the date of the most recent accessibility review. Once an audit is complete this section should state the conformance level actually achieved — fully conformant, partially conformant, or not conformant.]
What Bantu is designing for.
These are the things Bantu is building into the site. They describe design intent, and each will be checked as part of the accessibility review before launch.
Structure and navigation
- A single, logical heading order on every page.
- Consistent navigation and page layout across the site.
- Page regions marked up so screen readers can jump between them.
- Link text that makes sense when read on its own.
Reading and seeing
- Generous type sizes, line spacing and line length.
- Text and interface colours checked against WCAG AA contrast ratios.
- Text that can be enlarged in the browser without content being lost or cut off.
- Layouts that adapt to small screens and to zoomed displays.
- Meaning never carried by colour alone.
Keyboard and assistive technology
- Everything interactive reachable and operable by keyboard alone.
- A clearly visible focus indicator.
- Form fields with real labels, and errors described in text.
- Alternative text for images that carry meaning, and no alternative text on purely decorative ones.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: this list describes intent. It should be verified item by item against the finished site — and corrected here if anything is not delivered — before the statement is published as final.]
Known limitations
An honest accessibility statement names what does not yet work. Bantu is aware of the following, and they are being worked on:
- Documents. Some material published as a PDF may not be tagged for screen readers. If you need the content of a document in another format, ask and Bantu will provide it.
- Third-party content. Parts of the site may embed services operated by other organisations, such as maps, video or job board tools. Bantu does not control how accessible those are, and will replace or provide an alternative to any embed that creates a barrier.
- Imagery. Some photography on the site is still placeholder content, and final alternative text will be written when the approved images are in place.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: the current list of known accessibility limitations, taken from the pre-launch accessibility check, together with the intended timescale for addressing each one. This list should replace the general items above once the check has been carried out.]
If you cannot use part of this site
You should not have to fight the website to reach Bantu. If any part of it prevents you from finding a role, reading information or making an application, contact Bantu and the same information or the same process will be provided another way — for example by email or over the telephone.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: confirm that Bantu can support a candidate application by telephone or by email where a candidate cannot use the website, and name the team responsible.]
Report an accessibility barrier
Feedback is genuinely useful — most accessibility problems are found by the people who hit them. If something does not work for you, please tell Bantu through the contact page, or at info@bantuagency.com.au.
To help Bantu reproduce and fix the problem, please include what you can of the following:
- The address of the page you were on.
- What you were trying to do.
- What happened instead.
- The device, browser and any assistive technology you were using.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: the time within which Bantu commits to acknowledge accessibility feedback and to respond substantively, and whether a dedicated accessibility contact address should be published instead of the general office address.]
If you are not satisfied with the response
If you raise a barrier with Bantu and are not satisfied with how it is handled, you can escalate the matter to the body responsible for disability discrimination or accessibility complaints in the country where you live.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: the escalation route and complaints body to name for Australia and for Bantu’s African and Middle East markets.]
Status of this statement
This statement has been prepared for Bantu and is awaiting review and approval. It sets out intended practice, and each item marked [TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU] must be settled — and the claims in it verified against the finished site — before it is treated as final.
[TO BE CONFIRMED BY BANTU: the date this statement was prepared, the date the site was last tested for accessibility, and the method used — for example self-assessment or independent evaluation.]
Help Bantu improve.
Tell Bantu about anything on this website that got in your way. Every report is read, and it is the fastest way for a barrier to be found and fixed.