Accessibility statement
What was tested, what was found, and what has not been tested at all.
What we aim for
This site is built to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. That is the standard behind the Equality Act in the UK and the European Accessibility Act, and meeting it is how we show the question was taken seriously.
What was checked, and when
On every page was run through an automated accessibility check and the colours were measured arithmetically rather than judged by eye. Four things were found and all four were fixed:
- The live editor on the home page had four controls with no name a screen reader could announce. They now have one each.
- The home page had no way to skip past the header and the editor to the writing below. It now has a skip link.
- The home page content was not inside a
mainlandmark, so it could not be jumped to. It is now. - There was only one way to report a problem. There are now two, below.
The site is dark throughout; there is no light theme and no theme switch. Every text and background pair it paints measures at least 5.17 to 1, against a 4.5 to 1 requirement.
What has not been tested
This matters more than the list above. An automated check finds roughly half of accessibility problems. The engine most of the industry uses was measured against 300,000 real issues and covered about 57 per cent of them. The rest needs a person, and no person has tested this site yet.
So specifically, and to be plain about it:
- No screen reader test has been carried out by a human being. Nobody has listened to these pages read aloud.
- Nobody has driven the site by keyboard alone from top to bottom, so a keyboard trap could exist without our knowing.
- No test has been done with voice control or a switch device.
- Whether the alternative text on the images is genuinely useful, rather than merely present, is a judgement a machine cannot make.
- The editor you can try on the home page is a rich text editor. Those are hard to use with a screen reader at the best of times, and this one has not been tested with one. Everything it demonstrates is described in words on the same page, so nothing is only available inside it.
None of that means the site is inaccessible. It means we have not proved that it is not, and saying otherwise would be a claim we cannot support.
Reporting a barrier
If something here shuts you out, please tell us. There are two routes, on purpose, because the thing you are reporting might be one of them:
- Email complaints@lightmorphic.com
- Open an issue on the GitHub repository
We aim to reply within five working days. Tell us what you were trying to do, and what happened instead. You do not need to know the name of the rule that was broken.
If we do not put it right
The Equality and Human Rights Commission enforces the Equality Act 2010 in England, Scotland and Wales. If you are unhappy with how we have responded, you can contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service.
About this accessibility statement
Prepared on , based on the automated check and colour measurements described above. It will be reviewed when the site next changes.