Legal
Accessibility Statement
Last updated 6 June 2026
We want this site, and the journeys it describes, to be usable by as many people as possible. This statement sets out where we stand and what to do if something is in your way.
Not legal advice
This page is provided for information only and is not legal advice. It is a plain-English summary of how we operate, not a substitute for advice on your own circumstances. Where it conflicts with a signed agreement between us, that agreement prevails.
Our standard
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. That means legible type at generous sizes, colour combinations tested for contrast, a visible focus state on every control, and a layout that reflows without loss of content down to a 320-pixel viewport.
The site is built to work with a keyboard alone, and interactive controls carry accessible names so they can be reached and read by screen readers. Images that carry meaning have text alternatives.
Where motion is used — reveal-on-scroll, the culture spotlight, hover transitions — it is decorative and does not carry information on its own. The Featured Culture spotlight can be paused, and its slides can be reached directly rather than waited for.
Known limitations
The interactive world map on the home page is a visual aid. Every culture it plots is also listed as a text link beside it, and every story and journey is reachable without using the map.
Some articles quote long first-person passages set in a serif face. If that is hard to read, browser zoom and reader modes are supported and will not break the layout.
Pages hosted by our partners — Stripe's checkout and billing portal, Travel Club Navigator, and Niiji Global — are outside our control and follow their own accessibility standards.
Accessibility on a journey
Journeys vary enormously in physical demand. Terrain, altitude, ice, and remoteness are described honestly on the Journeys page, and your counsel will talk through what a specific itinerary actually asks of you before you commit.
Tell us what you need and we will ask the host community what can be arranged. Some accommodations are straightforward; others are genuinely not possible in a remote place, and we would rather say so early than disappoint you on arrival.
Telling us about a problem
If you meet a barrier on this site, or need information in another format, write to us. Tell us the page and what happened, and we will reply within five working days with a fix or a timeframe.
We review the site against this statement at least once a year and after any substantial change.
Contact
Accessibility feedback: circle@thehorizoncircle.co