Accessibility

The build decisions that keep this handbook readable, the one known limit, and how to report a barrier.

Effort has already been spent by the time anybody reaches a reference page. A page they then cannot read wastes all of it. The decisions below follow from that, and they are published so they can be checked rather than believed.

Markup

Pages are semantic HTML throughout. One H1 to a page, headings descending in order below it, and real landmark regions around the masthead, the main content and the footer. Lists are list elements. Comparisons are table elements with marked header cells, never columns simulated with spacing. The keyboard's first stop is a skip link that jumps straight into the main content. Everything except the search box works with scripting switched off.

Keyboard and focus

Every control reaches from the keyboard, in an order matching what the eye sees. Search behaves as an ARIA combobox: arrows walk the suggestion list, Enter opens whatever is highlighted, Escape closes it and drops the cursor back into the box, and the match count is announced as the list changes. A focus outline shows on everything focusable, drawn heavier than any hairline on the page, so it reads as focus and never as decoration.

Type and contrast

Body copy sits at eighteen pixels on a loose line height, held to a measure that lets the eye drop to the next line without hunting for it. Doubling the text size breaks no layout. Every pairing has been measured against WCAG AA — body copy, meta lines, table rules, interface elements. Cyan carries links, set at a value that passes as text. Underlines and position mark a link as well, so color never signals alone.

One theme only, and it is light. That is a design decision. The identity here is near-black furniture on pure white with a single accent; inverting it would produce a different publication, and it would fight the grade applied to every photograph.

Figures and tables

These subjects run on section numbers, form names, thresholds and day counts. Figures are set at reading size rather than shrunk into a caption, and no cell is left holding a bare number whose meaning lives in a header the reader has already passed. Header cells are marked as headers, so a screen reader announces them alongside each data cell.

The known limit

A comparison table can run wider than a phone. When it does, the table scrolls within its own container and the page stays still. A table earns its place only where rows against columns beat a paragraph, and the prose beside it carries the point that the comparison illustrates. Skipping the table costs a reader the arrangement and nothing else.

Photographs

Alt text describes the photograph, never the argument beside it, so a screen reader delivers what a glance delivers. Dimensions are declared before load, which stops text from jumping. No photograph here has words inside it, so nothing readable is locked in an image. Every credit sits at image credits.

Motion

Very little moves here, and whatever does defers to the operating system. A request for reduced motion stops transitions and smooth scrolling. Nothing flashes, plays by itself, or scrolls unprompted. No carousel, no video, no interstitial, no animated advertisement appears on any page.

Reporting a barrier

Mail contact@lawwisegroup.com. Name the page, describe what happened, say what you expected instead, and list which assistive technology, which browser and which settings were in play. A barrier ranks with a wrong citation: a defect, fixed like any other error on the page, and never filed away as a feature request. That process is at corrections, and contact covers the rest of what the address takes.