Accessibility

These pages

The site is built as plain HTML with semantic headings, landmarks and lists, so that screen readers and keyboard navigation work as expected. Every interactive element is reachable by keyboard and shows a visible focus outline. Images carry descriptive alternative text, and decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology.

Text scales with your browser settings rather than being fixed, the layout reflows down to narrow screens without horizontal scrolling, and colour combinations are chosen to meet contrast requirements. Animation is limited, and every animated element respects the reduced-motion setting in your operating system - if that is switched on, movement is removed rather than merely shortened.

The site does not depend on scripting: with JavaScript disabled, all content is present and all links work.

Known limitations

Wide tables and the route map scroll sideways inside their own container on small screens. If you find anything that does not work with your assistive technology, please report it through the contact page - reports are acted on.

Accessibility of the place itself

Lynton and Lynmouth are five hundred feet apart vertically. The cliff railway is the practical connection and carries wheelchairs, though the stations are Victorian and space is limited - contact the operator before relying on it.

Lynmouth’s harbour front and Esplanade are broadly level and the most accessible part of either village. Lynton’s Lee Road area is level; the streets running off it are not. Buildings in both villages are old, narrow and often on several floors, so ground-floor rooms are limited and worth asking about early - see where to stay.

Glen Lyn Gorge has step-free access to its waterfalls and offers an all-terrain mobility scooter. The lower section of the Watersmeet path from Lynmouth is wide and firm before it narrows further up. Most of the coast path and all of the open moor is unsurfaced, uneven and unsuitable for wheels.