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Ofcom recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities.

Ofcom seeks to be forward compliant in accessibility. This means we make every effort to ensure that everything we have created and published online since 29 December 2003 (the date we assumed our statutory powers) complies with current accessibility standards.

We will also follow forward best-practice. This means we will try to go beyond current standards to make sure we anticipate new guidelines as they emerge.

However, it is not possible to guarantee that older material previously published by our predecessor bodies and held in our archives will meet accessibility criteria. Much of that legacy material was created without following accessibility standards. It is very difficult to update this material; however, if people with disabilities need access to older documents we will do all we can to help them. For more information on this please contact the webmaster

Our predecessor bodies were the Radiocommunications Agency, Oftel, the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority and the Broadcasting Standards Commission. Material which they published prior to 29 December 2003 can be found in our Regulator Archives.

• Accesskeys
• Display options
• Technical Details
• RTF files
• Accessibility resources
• British Sign Language Presentation

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