Accessibility Statement

Shubbak is for everyone. Our commitment to access means that we’re working hard to make the arts more inclusive for all. The majority of our venues are physically accessible, and we continue to offer several free events, a pay-what-you-can pricing option for many others, as well as a free ticket scheme for community groups. We have scheduled relaxed performances across much of the programme. Our website includes features like Alt-text, open captioning and more (see below for further information).

New for Shubbak Festival 2025, we’re introducing a simple Access Key to help audiences quickly understand the format and accessibility offer for each performance or event. Our hope this tool will make it easier for people to identify what feels like a good fit for their access needs, have a better sense of what to expect, and to feel more informed when deciding what to join in with.

Access Key Categories for 2025:

  • Highly visual
  • Heavy text (lots of dialogue or spoken word)
  • Mostly movement/dance
  • Music and visual elements
  • Audience participation
  • Captioned
  • Contains content warnings

Accessibility Across Our Website:

We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, whilst strongly promoting the work of the artists we support using images, sounds and written pieces throughout our pages.

We adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines. The site’s accessibility is kept under ongoing review, and we welcome your input into this especially if you are having any difficulties with accessing our content, or if the way it is presented could be made clearer.

This website endeavours to confirm to the level Double A of the World Wide Web Consortium W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make content more accessible for disabled people.

Where possible use an up-to-date browser
By using an up-to-date browser, you will have access to a much richer set of options to aide you as you navigate your way round this site. The standard browsers we recommend are: Firefox, Chrome, Safari (MAC only) and Internet Explorer.

Most modern browsers all share the most common accessibility tools. Useful features include:

  • Incremental Search
  • Incremental search allows you to progressively search a web page for a particular word or phrase on a page.
  • Spatial Navigation
  • Hitting tab will jump you to each of the items you can interact with on any page.
  • Space Bar
  • Pressing the space bar on a web page will move the page you are viewing down to the next visible part of the page.
  • Text Fonts
  • Depending on your browser, you can override all fonts on the site to one that is easier for you to read.
  • Enlarge Your View
  • You can activate the browser zoom via shortcuts.
  • Options On Your Computer
  • To Zoom Your Entire Computer Screen
  • Apple Mac and Windows operating system both contain options to enlarge your view of your screen.

Options On Your Computer

  • To Zoom Your Entire Computer Screen
    Apple Mac and Windows operating system both contain options to enlarge your view of your screen.


If you spot anything that doesn’t look right or have any suggestions for how we might improve our services, please send an email to info@shubbak.co.uk.