Accessibility

Simplified WCAG guidance

WCAG 2.2 – Levels A and AA only, with dev notes.

Simple dropdowns (accordion)

Simple accordion using Details and summary elements. Accessible out-of-the-box.

Example

Supported banking services

If you need help with managing your money, we have options that could help you.

To see what help is available (for yourself or someone else) visit supported banking

Power of attorney

Power of Attorney lets you arrange for someone you trust to make decisions on your behalf and manage your finances on your behalf.

You may want to do this due to a change in your health or circumstances. If you don’t need someone to help you now, you can also set up a Power of Attorney for the future too.

Our accessibility statement, (an extremely long descriptive text to force more than a single line to activate a dropdown accordion section on desktop or mobile)

We want to increase the accessibility and usability of our services. You can see how we’re working towards this in our accessibility statement

Other…
Examples shown here are: browser default; with a right-hand chevron; and without the left-hand triangle.

Features

Note: Completely removing the disclosure triangle (display:none) will prevent the open/closed state being announced in Firefox + VoiceOver, but not in other browser / screen-reader combinations.

Ref: The details and summary elements, again

Ref: Impact of styling a summary element

Best to use details/summary with default triangle, but, if visual is essential, then use a transparent colour, and remove the space it occupies.

Do you have a more complex requirement? See: Multi-level Accordions - Using details/summary - one open at a time