Malta Resident Parking

Accessibility statement

Last reviewed: June 2026

The Malta Resident Parking Map should be usable by as many people as possible, including people who rely on a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, or high-contrast settings. This page sets out what we have done, where we still fall short, and how to tell us about a problem.

Conformance status

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA — the standard referenced by the EU Web Accessibility Directive. The text pages (this one, the guide, FAQ, data sources, contact and the legal pages) and the great majority of the app's controls meet that bar. Because the interactive map has the known limitations listed below, the site as a whole is best described as partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 AA: most of it conforms, but some map interactions do not yet.

What we've done

  • Semantic HTML with landmark regions, a single page heading, and a “skip to content” link on every page.
  • All buttons, links, menus, accordions and form fields are operable by keyboard, with a clearly visible focus outline.
  • Colour contrast checked against the WCAG AA thresholds in both the light and dark themes, including muted text, buttons and focus rings.
  • Form fields and the search/filter boxes have proper labels; errors are announced and tied to their field.
  • Status messages — the street count, “no matches”, and the selected-route banner — are announced to screen readers.
  • The interface respects your system's reduced-motion and light/dark preferences, and the text reflows when zoomed.
  • The whole site works without a mouse for navigation, search, filtering and reading content.

Known limitations

We want to be straight about what isn't fully accessible yet:

  • The interactive map canvas itself cannot be navigated by a screen reader. This is an inherent limitation of WebGL maps. To make up for it, the same content — bus routes, ferries, cycling and hiking routes, nature areas and campsites — is also listed and selectable from the keyboard-accessible side menu, and the map can be panned and zoomed with the on-screen buttons and the keyboard.
  • Opening the detail card for one specific street, public car park, bus stop or service marker (EV charging point, public toilet, police station, hospital or clinic, pharmacy, petrol station or government office) is currently done by tapping it on the map (a pointer action). Keyboard and screen- reader users can still narrow the map using the zone, locality, route and town filters, but a fully keyboard-driven picker for those individual features is still on our list.
  • The background map tiles, and any advertising, are provided by third parties whose accessibility we do not control.

How we test

Accessibility was reviewed in June 2026 through a combination of automated checks and a manual audit against WCAG 2.2 level AA (keyboard operation, focus order, screen-reader semantics, and measured colour contrast). We re-check as the site changes; it is an ongoing effort rather than a one-off.

Tell us about a problem

If you hit an accessibility barrier — something you can't reach with the keyboard, text you can't read, or anything a screen reader handles badly — please get in touch. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and the assistive technology or browser you were using, and we'll do our best to put it right.