Accessibility

This accessibility statement applies to content published on the Soldier Magazine website at www.soldier.army.mod.uk. It does not apply to content on army.mod.uk.

This website is run by the Ministry of Defence. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 200% without the text spilling off the screen
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

How accessible this website is

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• Some image alt text is missing or incorrect
• Most PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

Rerporting accessibility problems with this website

We welcome your input on all aspects of the Soldier Magazine website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Technical information about this website's accessibility

The Ministry of Defence is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

Compliance status

This website is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 A standard. 

Content that's not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFS and other documents

The Soldier Magazine archive – which dates back to 1945 – is a collection of PDF files for users to view online or download for offline consumption. We are currently working to a programme to augment future additions to the Soldier Magazine archive with accessible HTML pages.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

What we're doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility roadmap shows how we plan to improve accessibility on this website, namely:

• A complete accessibility audit
• The implementation of technical updates to the website to ensure missing accessibility standards are met
• Resolving content issues that do not meet accessibility standards

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared on 14 February 2025. It was last reviewed on 14 February 2025.

This website was last tested on 12 February 2025. The test was carried out by Cantarus. They carried out a manual audit of the Soldier Magazine’s key pages and then reviewed the rest of the website using automated scans.

A report was produced as an output of this testing with a series of recommendations for improvement, in line with WCAG 2.2 A standards.