Accessibility

The target

WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We treat that as the floor rather than the goal, and we measure against it rather than assuming it.

What is built in

• Every colour pair is measured, not eyeballed. Where a background and an ink fell short, the background changed rather than the requirement.
• The site is operable by keyboard throughout, with a skip link to the main content and visible focus on every control.
• Text is real text, never an image of text, so it reflows and rescales.
• Motion follows your system setting. With reduced motion turned on, background animation does not run.
• The animated field behind the homepage headline has a pause control, because a system preference alone does not satisfy WCAG 2.2.2 for motion that starts on its own.
• Form fields have real labels above them, never a placeholder standing in for one.

Known issues

• The enquiry form cannot be submitted. It is built but not connected. The notice saying so sits above the fields rather than on the button, so it is read before anything is typed, and the working email address is in that same notice. This affects everyone equally, but it is a barrier and it belongs here.
• Every page has been checked automatically for heading order, accessible names on links and buttons, form labelling, landmark structure, and measured colour contrast on every text node against its actual background. All pass.
• That is not the same as a pass with a real screen reader, which has not happened yet. Automated checks catch the errors that are machine-detectable, which is a minority of the ways a page can be hard to use.

Tell us if something is wrong

If any part of this site is hard to use, email techlafunder@gmail.com and describe what happened and what you were using. We would rather hear it than not, and we will tell you when it is fixed.