The Make Things Accessible website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use of this site by you constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions which take effect from date of first use.
Material on this website, including code examples and images, are provided under an MIT license unless explictly stated otherwise, you may use code examples or images without restiction or limitation, for personal or business use, provided they are also used under an MIT license. However, code examples are provided "As is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. Make Things Accessible do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on this website.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
If you are a user with general public and anonymous access, the Make Things Accessible website does not store or capture personal information of users with general public access. We do not use cookies for collecting user information and we will not collect any information about you.
Where our website links to external resources or websites, these may add their own cookies. These are outside our control. Cookies can be disabled by changing the settings on your computer browser, but you may need to re-enter information at times.
Make Things Accessible does not collect personal information apart from that offered through users directly contacting us through email or social media channels. All contact information that does not lead to ongoing engagement will be removed at the end of our retention period to comply with the Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulations. At no point is any personal information provided to Make Things Accessible shared with third parties or used for any other purpose (such as promotional emails).
Make Things Accessible do not install any cookies on your device or use any tracking data, however, we may from time-to-time embed another website on our guide pages, such as YouTube or Twitter. These 3rd party services may install cookies on your device, however, we will use Privacy Mode for embeds where available in order to respect your privacy and comply with GDPR.
What are cookies?
Website cookies are small text files that are used by a website to store information in your browser (Google Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox etc). They are sent from a website's server and the users’ browsers. When you visit a website, it may send a cookie from its server to your browser. The browser then stores the cookie on your device in a cookie file.
We have limited control over 3rd party cookies and occasionally we may need to embed a tweet or a video to add context to our guides, as an example, when we provide a guide for adding quality captions in YouTube, we would embed a video within the guide, that may show the differences between auto-generated and manually edited captions, to discuss the differences and impact incorrect captions could have on users.
Can I see these 3rd party cookie policies?
Yes, of course. Twitter embeds cookies in an anonymous fasion, they do not use these cookies to identify you: Twitter for Websites Privacy Policy.
We will always embed YouTube videos with "privacy-Enhanced mode" which does not track you or personalise any content you see across the web: YouTube's privacy-enhanced Mode.
Can I control my cookies?
Yes. You can use your browser settings to control cookies, in several ways:
- You can use Incognito, In private or Private browsing mode (the name will depend on the browser you are using)
- You can block 3rd party cookies (Those that belong to a website other than the one you are visiting, such as embedded Twitter content etc)
- You can block all cookies (This will likely log you out of every site you can access your account without signing in)
How do I change my browser's cookie settings?
Each browser has different ways of adjusting the settings, options may have slightly different names and they will likely appear in different locations in the menu options, please visit the page for the browser(s) you use to familiarise yourself with locating the correct settings for your preferences (each links to an external site):
- Microsoft Edge cookies settings
- Google Chrome cookies settings
- Firefox cookies settings
- Apple Safari iOS (iPads & iPhones etc) cookies settings
- Apple Safari MacOS (MacBooks and Apple desktops) cookies settings
We add a non-cookie token to your browser's local storage, only if you interact with the Theme toggle settings, this value cannot be used to identify you in any way, it simply sets a key of 'data-theme' and a value of either 'light' or 'dark' if you choose one of those options, selecting the System option will completely remove that token from your device. This token is functional, it is required for a user's selected theme to persist across pages and in no way can it cause any harm to a user, nor can it be tracked in any way. This site will respect your operating system preferences, so as an example, a user who has Dark Theme as their operating system preference will initially see the dark theme of our site and this does not require any interaction with the theme selection control, nor will it store a token in your browser.