Skip in from the cold

Homes of our own in north Bolton

The corner of a sash window pane at dawn: fine droplets of condensation cover the lower glass and run down to the putty, while the upper glass is clear and shows a cold blue-grey morning.
Accessibility statement

Reading this site

This website should work for anyone who needs to sell us a house, find a home with us, or check what they sent: with a keyboard, a screen reader, a magnified screen, a slow connection or scripts turned off. This statement says how close it comes, with the measurements, and how to ask for anything it does not do.

WCAG 2.2, level AA

What we aim for

The site is built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.2, at level AA. As a private company we are not covered by the accessibility regulations for public bodies, so this statement is not required of us; the Equality Act 2010 does require us to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people, and this page is part of how we do that.

This statement was prepared on 13 November 2026, from tests run on the live site that day, and it covers every page at this address, including the pages the site draws for a house or a name on the list.

With the numbers

What was tested

Tests on the live site, 13 November 2026
WhatHowResult
Screen widthsEvery page loaded at 320, 390, 820, 1280 and 1600 pixels wide and scrolled top to bottom, measuring sideways overflow at every stopAll 16 pages: 0 pixels of sideways overflow at every width, no broken picture, no script error
Colour schemesEvery new or changed page loaded with the system set to light and to darkThe site stays dark in both, by design; 0 findings on any page in either setting for ground, type scale, controls and cut-off text
Text contrastEach text colour measured against each background it is set onBody text 15.75:1; the faintest text, grey on the darkest panel, 5.09:1; links 10.73:1 — all above the 4.5:1 that AA asks
Words over picturesThe screen captured with the words cleared, then every pixel under the words measured, the worst one counted31 measurements on 7 pages at five widths; the worst pixel is 5.27:1, on the first page at a phone’s width. Each was checked against a deliberately wrong ink, which failed as it should
ControlsEvery link and button in the navigation measured at restEvery navigation link and button paints a visible shape at rest and is at least 44 pixels tall: 0 failures on any page
KeyboardEvery page and both forms worked through with the keyboard aloneA skip link on every page; a visible amber focus ring on every link, button and field; no trap
Scripts offBoth forms sent, checked, changed and withdrawn with JavaScript turned offEvery form works; only the instant ward check needs scripts, and the ward is checked again when the form is sent
MotionPages loaded with “reduce motion” setNothing moves; the still state is the finished state, so nothing waits on an animation
Keys, zoom, no scripts

What works

  • text that reflows to a phone’s width with no sideways scrolling
  • zoom to 200% and beyond without losing words or controls
  • every picture described in words, and the drawings too
  • every form field labelled, and every error said in words
  • headings in order on every page, and landmarks for the main parts
  • typefaces served from this site, so text arrives on slow connections
Said plainly

What does not work well yet

  • One colour scheme

    The site is dark in every setting, with light text. Some people read dark text on a light page more easily; your browser’s reader view shows any page that way.

  • The warmth in the drawings

    The house drawings on the first page and on the put-forward form show warm and cold, sound and failed, partly by colour. The same facts are always written beside them in words, but the colour itself is not described line by line.

  • Not yet tested with people

    The tests above are measurements and keyboard runs by us. The site has not yet been tested by disabled people using their own assistive technology. When it is, what they find goes on this page.

  • Pages we link to

    Links to Companies House, the Historic England list entries, Nomis and other public sites lead to pages we do not control.

Ask, and how

Another way

If you need anything on this site in another form — plain text in an email, large print by post, a form filled in with you by letter — write to homes@ilannest.space or to the registered office, say what you need and which page, and we will send it within five working days. The same goes for anything you find hard to use here: tell us what and where, and we will reply within two working days.

EASS and the EHRC

If we do not put it right

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is responsible for enforcing the Equality Act 2010. If you are not happy with how we answer a request about accessibility, the Equality Advisory and Support Service can advise you, free: equalityadvisoryservice.com, telephone 0808 800 0082.

You can also use our own complaints process; a complaint about access is answered on the same days as any other.