Accessibility

What works today

• Keyboard navigation: the site is built from standard buttons, links and form fields, so you can move through pages, forms and menus with Tab, Shift and Tab, Enter and Space, and dialogs close with Escape.
• Contrast: body text and headings sit as dark grey or near black on white, and the red used for buttons and links carries white text. We have aimed for comfortable contrast throughout, although we have not measured every combination against a standard.
• Mobile and small screens: every page including the dashboard, results and the test itself is laid out to work on a phone, and the text reflows rather than requiring sideways scrolling.
• Zoom and text size: pages use relative sizing, so browser zoom and a larger default font size do not break the layout.
• Reduced motion: animations on the marketing pages are short fades and slides and carry no essential information, so nothing is lost if your system is set to reduce motion.

Known gaps

Being straight with you about the parts we know are weaker:

• The site has not been tested end to end with a screen reader, so some labels and status messages may not be announced as clearly as they should be.
• Contrast has not been verified against a formal ratio on every element, particularly small grey helper text.
• The speaking simulation is a timed, spoken exercise, which is inherently hard for some users. See below.

The speaking test needs a microphone

The speaking simulation records your voice, so it needs a working microphone and your permission to use it in the browser. There is no typed alternative, because the thing being assessed is speech. It is also timed per part, in the same way the real IELTS Speaking test is.

If a disability makes the standard timed format unworkable for you, write to us before you buy. A live assessment session with Daniel is a human conversation rather than an automated one, and adjustments can be discussed there. [To confirm with Daniel: which adjustments can be offered in a live session].

Reporting a barrier

If something on the site blocks you, please tell us. Email support@takeieltstest.com, which is a placeholder address pending confirmation, and include the page you were on, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology you were using. A short description of what happened is enough.

We treat accessibility reports as bugs, not feature requests. If you have paid for something you could not use because of a barrier on our side, our refund policy applies.