Accessibility statement
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Our commitment
We want everyone to be able to use this website and, where it is safe to do so, to train with us. The site has been rebuilt with accessibility as a requirement rather than an afterthought.
The standard we are working to
We aim to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. That means, among other things: text that meets contrast requirements, a site you can operate entirely from a keyboard, meaningful alternative text on images, visible focus indicators, headings and landmarks that make sense to a screen reader, and text you can enlarge to 200% without losing content.
We say aim to meet rather than conform to, and the difference is deliberate. Conformance is a claim about a site that has been fully tested, including by hand and with a screen reader. Ours has not been, yet. The section below says what we do know.
Known limitations
These are the problems we know about today. The list is specific on purpose — an accessibility statement that claims everything is perfect is worth nothing to the person it is written for.
Two colours on this site do not have enough contrast against the background behind them. The rule for text this size is a ratio of 4.5 to 1, and both of these fall short:
| Where | Measured | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Our red, on the pale panels — section labels, list numbers, some links | 4.46:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Our red, on the dark navy sections — section labels, the “Start here” links on the protection-planning tiles | 2.5:1 to 2.9:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Our lightest grey, on the page background — small print and captions | 3.51:1 | 4.5:1 |
| Our lightest grey, on the pale panels | 3.19:1 | 4.5:1 |
Our red measures 4.9:1 against the main page background, which passes; it is the panels and the navy sections where it does not. Between them these affect 51 pieces of text across 12 pages. None of that text is the only route to anything — every item it marks is also a heading or an ordinary link — but they are real failures and they need a design fix rather than a patch.
The other things we know about:
- One heading is out of order. The About page carries a heading brought over from the old site that jumps from the page title straight to a fourth-level heading. Anyone navigating by heading will find a gap there. It is fixed when that page’s text is finished.
- Registration for USCCA-certified courses happens on the USCCA’s own website, not this one. We do not control how accessible that site is. If you cannot complete a booking there, contact us and we will take it directly.
- No screen-reader pass has been done end to end, and no independent audit has been commissioned. Until both have happened, treat this list as what automated testing and keyboard testing found, not as a complete account.
How we tested
Automated accessibility testing runs against the WCAG 2.2 A and AA rule sets across a page of every template on the site — the home page, the course catalogue, a course page, the community talks index, a talk page, the About pages, the contact form, the protection-planning pages, the account and mailing-list pages, these legal pages, and the error pages. The known limitations above are what that testing reports, and the counts are exact rather than rounded.
Alongside it we check two things by hand:
- The keyboard. Every link, field and button can be reached by tabbing, in an order that matches the page, and every one of them shows a visible focus indicator when it has focus. On the contact page that is 34 stops, and all 34 pass.
- Reflow. The site is checked down to a 320-pixel-wide window. Nothing scrolls sideways and no content is lost. The wide tables on this page and in the privacy policy sit in their own scrolling box, and that box can be scrolled from the keyboard.
Last tested: 8 September 2026.
Training and the range
Our courses involve live fire on an outdoor range. Some physical requirements are inherent to the training and cannot be removed without making it unsafe. That said, we would rather have a conversation than have you assume the answer is no — tell us what you need and we will tell you honestly what we can accommodate, at the range or in the classroom portion.
Tell us about a problem
If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us. Tell us which page, and what happened. We read everything that arrives and we will get back to you.
- Email: info@victoryprotect.com
- Or use the contact form
If you cannot use the site to book a course, contact us and we will take your booking directly.