Accessibility

What we aim for

We aim for every page to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.2, at level AA. Those are the guidelines most accessibility laws and policies point to. We treat a page that fails them as broken, the same as a page that doesn't load.

How the site is built

• Every page's words are in the page itself, so a screen reader gets all of them without running any script.
• Headings, lists, landmarks and labels are real ones, and each form field is tied to its label, hint and error.
• Everything works by keyboard. Each page starts with a link that skips to its content, and focus is always visible.
• If your device asks for reduced motion, nothing animates and every part of the page is simply there.
• The site has one dark theme. Its text and controls are checked for contrast against it.

What we check, and how often

Every change to the site is tested before it goes live. An automated checker opens every page and fails the change on any level A or AA problem it finds. A second run scores sample pages for accessibility on a phone and on a computer. A third opens the menus by keyboard and loads the pages with reduced motion.

Automated checks find only some problems. They can't tell whether a page makes sense read aloud, or whether a heading says what its section is about.

Where it falls short

• The site has not been audited by an outside accessibility specialist.
• It has not been tested with every screen reader and browser, or by people who use one every day.
• The check on the forms that you're a person is Cloudflare Turnstile. It usually needs nothing from you, but it's made by another company and we can't change how it behaves.
• The graphic at the top of each page is decoration and is hidden from screen readers. If you find a picture elsewhere that carries something its text doesn't, that's a fault, and we'd like to know.

Tell us what doesn't work

If any part of the site is hard or impossible for you to use, write to us. Tell us the page and what happened, and what you were using if you know. We'll fix it, or tell you why we can't yet.

If the form itself is the problem, the same message can reach us on any of the profiles linked at the foot of every page.