Iglesia Lifepoint wants everyone to be able to use this site, with whatever device and assistive technology they use. Here we explain how far we have gotten, what we know is still not right and how to tell us if you run into a barrier.

What this statement covers

Every page of this site, in all three of its languages: Spanish, German and English.

Accessibility was a requirement from the first day of the project and not a check at the end: it shaped the choice of colors, the way every component was written and the wording of the texts. The admin area the church uses to manage the content, which is not public, was built and tested to the same standard.

Level of conformance

This site is partially conformant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, which is the level the European standard EN 301 549 requires. “Partially conformant” means that every page meets that level except for the points listed below.

The church is a private organization and is not required by law to publish this statement: Spain’s Royal Decree 1112/2018 applies to the public sector. We publish it because it is the honest thing to do, and because a promise of accessibility without the list of what still fails says nothing.

How we checked

This is a self-assessment: it was carried out by the team that built the site, not by an independent third party. We measured the 15 pages of each language and the error page, on the published version, in light and dark themes and at widths of 320 and 1280 pixels.

Automated testing with axe-core, in ten different states of each page — accordions open, menu expanded, animations already finished — produced 480 measurements without a single level AA violation.

Going through the site with the keyboard alone came to 5,940 stops: no trap you cannot get out of, no stop completely hidden behind the header and none without a visible focus ring. The mobile menu returns focus to the button that opened it when you close it with Escape.

We went through the site with the NVDA 2026.2 screen reader on Windows, noting how the menu, the accordions, the theme selector, the breadcrumb and the error messages are announced.

At 200% and 400% browser zoom, and with increased text spacing, no page overflows or forces you to scroll sideways — not even in German, the longest of the three languages.

Contrast was measured pixel by pixel — each letter against the background actually behind it, photographs included — in both themes: 5,780 elements, none below the level AA minimum.

With the system preference for reduced motion turned on, no animation plays, and no content is lost because of it.

Non-accessible content

The page that answers when an address does not exist (error 404) arrives with no declared language and no main heading until the browser finishes loading it; with JavaScript turned off it stays that way. That wrapper is generated by the tool the site is built with, and it does not let us set either one earlier. It is the only point where we know the site falls short of what WCAG 2.2 requires, and we intend to fix it.

Three blocks on the Giving page are placeholder text and read in Spanish in the German and English versions too. This is not a missing translation but text waiting for its final wording: it is marked up as Spanish, so a screen reader pronounces it in Spanish rather than with the phonetics of the page’s language.

The German and English versions were translated from Spanish by a language model, using a glossary agreed beforehand, and have not yet been reviewed by a native speaker. They are complete and understandable; if you read something that sounds odd or does not mean what it should, tell us.

Contrast level AAA, stricter than the required level AA, is not reached in the colored lines above the headings, in the muted text of the footer or in two of the frequently asked questions. All of them meet level AA comfortably; raising them to AAA would mean changing the brand colors.

When keyboard focus is on the theme selector or on the skip link to the content, part of the focus outline is covered: by the control’s own icon in one case and by the edge of the header in the other. The level AA criterion asks that focus not be entirely hidden, and it never is; the level AAA criterion asks that it not be partly hidden either.

Two things we link to are not under our control: the map, which opens on OpenStreetMap, and the Welcome Plan, a PDF document in Spanish hosted on Google Drive. If either gives you trouble, ask us for that information by phone or email and we will get it to you another way.

How this statement was prepared

It was prepared on September 17, 2026, as the migration from the previous website was completed, and last reviewed that same day. We will review it whenever something changes that affects accessibility, and at least once a year.

How to tell us

If you run into a barrier — something you cannot read, operate, hear or understand — write to us at iglesialifepoint@gmail.com or call us at (+34) 643 529 116.

Tell us, if you can, what page you were on, what you were trying to do and what you browse with: keyboard, screen reader, zoom, screen magnifier. That lets us reproduce it sooner and fix it sooner.

We will reply as soon as we can and tell you what we are going to do and when. And if what you need is the content of a page you cannot use, we will give it to you by phone, by email or in person on Sunday.