TfGM Website Accessibility Update for Oldham 2026

Transport for Greater Manchester has admitted that parts of its main travel website still shut out disabled Oldham residents, despite a fresh pledge of compliance published this month.

The February 2026 statement says tfgm.com 'partially' meets national accessibility rules. Screen-reader users can't make sense of many PDF timetables, while people who enlarge text to 400% on a laptop find pop-up chat boxes smother the very information they need.

Videos sometimes go live without audio description, leaving hearing-impaired viewers guessing at announcements, and complex route diagrams regularly lack written explanations for blind passengers.

TfGM promises to supply alternative formats within five working days if asked, yet the same document concedes that maps and older files published before September 2018 can legally stay unchanged.

An outside firm, Zoonou, last sampled the site in April 2025; the audit list of failings remains almost word-for-word in the new statement, giving no timetable for fixes.