Accessibility

The target

We build this site to WCAG 2.2 level AA. That's a working target we test against, not a badge we awarded ourselves, and this page describes what that means in practice.

Controls built into the site

Every page carries an accessibility panel with three settings:

• Text size. Three steps, up from the default.
• Spacing. A relaxed option that opens up line height and letter spacing.
• Motion. A reduce option that stops non-essential animation.

Your choices are stored in your browser's local storage and never leave your device. Motion also follows your operating system's reduced-motion setting by default, so if you've asked your system for less movement, the site starts there.

Under the surface

Pages use semantic landmarks with a skip-to-content link, so screen readers and keyboard users can jump past the chrome. Menus, dialogs and the language switcher work from the keyboard. Focus indicators are visible, and colour contrast is checked against AA in both the light and dark themes.

Where we can fall short

Articles sometimes carry screenshots, diagrams or tables of technical material. We write text alternatives for images, but the density of the source material means some of it is harder going than plain prose. If a specific piece of content doesn't work with your setup, that's a bug in our eyes, not an inevitability.

Tell us

If you hit a barrier, use the contact page and tell us the page and the problem, in whatever detail you have. We treat accessibility reports as bugs and fix them in that order.