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Accessibility statement
Last updated 29 July 2026
Front Wave Research LLP (SEBI Research Analyst, Reg. No. INH000018407) is committed to making frontwaveresearch.com usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.
Standards we work to
- Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Rules made thereunder
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA
- Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) 3.0
- IS 17802 (ICT accessibility)
- SEBI circulars on digital accessibility for regulated entities
What we have implemented
- Keyboard access: every interactive element is reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus indicator.
- Skip to main content: the first keyboard stop on every page skips repeated navigation.
- Text alternatives: images carry alternative text; decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology.
- Structure: semantic headings, lists, tables and landmark regions so screen readers can navigate the page in order.
- Contrast: text meets the WCAG AA minimum contrast ratio against its background.
- Reflow: content adapts down to 320 px without horizontal scrolling or loss of content; wide tables scroll within their own container.
- Reading options: on-page controls (the accessibility button, bottom left) adjust text size, line height, paragraph spacing, letter spacing and word spacing. Browser zoom and your own stylesheet are also supported.
- Multiple ways to find pages: site navigation, a searchable archive, and a sitemap.
- Forms: every field has a visible, programmatically associated label, and information you have already given is not requested again.
- Motion: animation is reduced automatically when your device requests reduced motion.
Assessment
An independent digital accessibility audit of our platform was carried out by an IAAP-certified accessibility professional. Findings from that audit have been addressed on this website and re-tested. Accessibility is treated as ongoing work, not a one-time exercise, and we re-check as the site changes.
Conformance checklist
The audit assessed this platform against WCAG 2.2 Level AA, mapped to GIGW 3.0 and IS 17802, and recorded nine checkpoints as non-compliant. Each is listed below with its current status and what was done. Every item was re-tested on this website after the change.
| WCAG 2.2 | Checkpoint | Status | What was done |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | Non-text content | Addressed | Every image carries alternative text. Decorative graphics and icons are hidden from assistive technology; icon-only controls carry an accessible name describing the action, not the icon. |
| 1.3.1 | Info and relationships | Addressed | One h1 per page followed by an unbroken heading order. Lists are marked up as lists, tabular data as tables with a caption and scoped header cells, and definitions as description lists. No styled text stands in for a heading. |
| 1.4.3 | Contrast (minimum) | Addressed | The colour palette was recomputed so every text token meets 4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text, against the background it is actually rendered on. |
| 1.4.10 | Reflow | Addressed | Every page reflows to 320 px with no horizontal scrolling and no loss of content. Tables are sized to fit the page at normal window widths. On a screen too narrow for a table to fit, that table scrolls inside its own container rather than pushing the page sideways, and the container is reachable and scrollable by keyboard. |
| 1.4.12 | Text spacing | Addressed | On-page reading controls adjust text size, line height, paragraph spacing, letter spacing and word spacing, and the choice is remembered on the device. Applying the WCAG text-spacing metrics through an external stylesheet causes no loss of content. |
| 2.4.1 | Bypass blocks | Addressed | A skip-to-main-content link is the first keyboard stop on every page and moves focus to the main region. |
| 2.4.5 | Multiple ways | Addressed | Two independent routes to every page: the site navigation, and a footer index that lists every page in one place. A search of the research library returns with the library itself. |
| 3.3.7 | Redundant entry | Addressed | Information already given is carried forward rather than requested again, and personal-data fields carry autocomplete attributes so the browser can fill them. |
| 4.1.1 | Parsing | Addressed | Rendered markup is validated: no duplicate id values, no unclosed or mis-nested elements. |
Verification
The checks below were run against every publicly reachable page on this website. Contrast is measured as a computed ratio between rendered text and its composited background; reflow is measured as horizontal overflow in CSS pixels.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Images without alternative text | None |
| Unlabelled interactive controls | None |
| Pages without a skip link | None |
| Pages without exactly one h1 | None |
| Heading levels skipped | None |
| Duplicate id values | None |
| Text failing the WCAG AA contrast minimum | None |
| Horizontal overflow at 320 px and at 375 px | 0 pixels |
| Content lost under WCAG text-spacing metrics | None |
Scope of this statement
This statement covers the pages published at frontwaveresearch.com at the date shown above. Our subscriber research library is being reintroduced to the site in stages; pages added after this date are built to the same checklist and are re-checked before they are published.
Known limitations
Some research notes contain data tables that are wide by nature. These remain scrollable within their own container and are marked up with proper table headers, but they may require horizontal scrolling on very small screens. Where a document is provided in PDF form, an accessible alternative can be requested using the contact details below.
Feedback
If you encounter an accessibility barrier on this site, or need information in an alternative format, please tell us. We will respond and, where required, provide the information another way.
Email support@frontwaveresearch.com. We aim to acknowledge within 3 business days. If you are not satisfied with our response, the escalation route is published on our grievance page.