Accessibility

What we build to

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, at level AA. That is what this site is built toward. It is a target, not a claim of conformance: no third party has audited it and the gaps below are the ones I know about.

What is in place: real headings, a skip link, a visible focus outline, text that enlarges without breaking, body contrast well above 4.5 to 1, no autoplay and no flashing, and no motion for anyone whose system asks for less. Every page works with JavaScript turned off except the pieces named below, and each of those says so where it stands.

Where we fall short

The study drill, the map, the map drill, the site search and ClaretBot all need JavaScript. Where one of them is, the page says what it needs and what is there without it: the map drill links to the map itself, with every name on it, and the search page says so plainly.

The map is operated by mouse and by touch, and from the keyboard only in part: the appellations can be reached from the list beneath it, but the shapes and the estate pins themselves cannot yet be tabbed to. The map drill cannot be answered from the keyboard at all. Both are being worked on, and until they are, the map page carries the same names as readable text and every appellation has a page of its own.

A few smaller things: some older photographs carry short alternative text where a longer description would serve better, and a handful of small controls are under the 24 pixel target that version 2.2 asks for. The site is checked at every build for broken links, structure and the house rules; accessibility is checked by hand, not by that build.

Tell us

If something here is hard to use, or impossible, write to antonio@bordeauxreviews.com and say what you were trying to do and what stopped you. We will answer, say what we can do and by when, and send you the same material another way in the meantime.