Accessibility Statement

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, and with the European standard EN 301 549 v3.2.1. The website’s own pages meet the standard. The parts that don’t are content from other providers, listed below.

On this website you can:

• use every page with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus outline, and a “Skip to content” link on every page
• use a screen reader: pages have a clear heading structure and labelled landmarks, and every button, link and form field is named
• zoom to 200% without losing content; text that isn’t a heading grows the full 200%
• read text with enough contrast against its background (at least 4.5 to 1)
• turn animations off with your device’s reduced motion setting, and pause the home page’s background video

• Booking tickets, memberships and donations. These steps run on Spektrix, our ticketing provider, inside our pages. We give them our own stylesheet, which adds a visible keyboard focus outline and brings text and buttons up to the required colour contrast, and we test how they work with a keyboard, a screen reader and zoom. In November 2026 the list of shows, the show details, the seating plan, sign in and the basket passed automated checks with no failures. One known problem remains: the seating plan’s keyboard shortcuts use the same keys as VoiceOver on a Mac. We are raising it with Spektrix. Checkout, payment, memberships and donations have not yet been fully tested; we will update this statement when they have. You can always book with the box office instead (see below).
• Maps. The maps on the Your Visit and About pages come from Google Maps and can be hard to use with a screen reader. The address is always written out beside the map.
• Large headings when zoomed on big screens. Large headings and introductions grow to about 190% at 200% zoom, not the full 200%. Body text grows the full 200%.
• The large year at the top of season pages. It is sized to fill the width of the page, so it doesn’t grow when you zoom. The same information is in the page title.
• Footer text over the logo. On larger screens, the red contact details and social links in the footer sit over the large Gate Theatre logo, where their contrast is 4.15 to 1, a little under the 4.5 to 1 the standard asks for. On phones the logo sits below the text, so this doesn’t apply.

We review these each time the website is updated.

If any part of the website doesn’t work for you, the box office can book tickets, memberships and donations, and send information in another format.

• Email: boxoffice@gate-theatre.ie
• Phone: +353 1 874 4045
• Opening hours: Monday 10am to 6pm, Tuesday to Friday 10pm to 7pm, Saturday 12pm to 7pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm.

For access at the theatre itself, see the Access page.

The website was assessed against WCAG 2.2 AA by its developers, Unthink, in November 2026, using:

• automated checks with axe-core and Google Lighthouse on phone and desktop, with animations on and off
• a review of every template, component, script and stylesheet
• keyboard-only testing of every page and interactive part
• automated and keyboard checks of the Spektrix booking pages with our stylesheet
• screen reader testing with VoiceOver on Mac
• a check of every text and background colour pair

Vision Ireland will review the website after launch, and we will update this statement with their findings.

This statement was prepared on 11 November 2026 and last reviewed on 11 November 2026.

If you find something on this website you can’t use, or need information in another format, tell us:

• Email: boxoffice@gate-theatre.ie
• Phone: +353 1 874 4045

We will reply as soon as we can.