1. Accessibility commitment
wants this website to be usable by as many people as possible, whatever their abilities or the technology they use. To that end it takes the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA as its reference and the European standard EN 301 549 as its technical framework.
balconsun.com is a privately run informational website, and this statement is published voluntarily. It applies to every page of balconsun.com.
2. Compliance status
This website is PARTIALLY CONFORMANT with WCAG 2.2 at level AA: most of the content meets the criteria, with the limitations described in the next section.
3. Known limitations
Product thumbnails in the comparisons are illustrative images: the relevant information about each product is also given in the text.
Purchase links lead to external pages, such as Amazon, whose accessibility is outside our control.
Some interactive tools, such as the orientation compass or the yield calculator, can be operated with the keyboard but may be less convenient with some assistive technologies.
If you find a barrier that is not on this list, please tell us: it will help us fix it.
4. Preparation of this statement
This statement was prepared on on the basis of a self-assessment carried out by the website team, using automated checks (pa11y and axe) and a manual review of keyboard navigation.
Statement last reviewed: .
5. Accessibility tools on this site
The footer of every page contains an "Accessibility" link that opens a reading preferences panel: text size, line height, letter and word spacing, a more legible font, text alignment, heading and link highlighting, contrast modes, greyscale, reduced motion, pausing animations and media, reading width, reading guide and reading mask, keyboard focus highlighting and large cursors.
Your preferences are stored only in your browser and apply to every page on the site. No cookies are used and nothing is sent to any server.
Each page also has a link to skip straight to the main content, which appears when you press the Tab key from the very top of the page.
6. Feedback and contact details
If you come across any accessibility barrier on this site, email us at [email protected]. Please tell us the page, what you were trying to do and which assistive technology you were using, if any.
You can also use this channel to ask us for any content on the site in an alternative format.
7. Complaints procedure
If you do not receive a reply or are not satisfied with it, write to us again at [email protected] stating that it is an accessibility complaint. We will review it and get back to you.