Accessibility

We aim for WCAG 2.2 at level AA on every screen, on a phone and on a computer, in light and dark mode.

How we check it

• An automatic checker, axe, looks at every screen for WCAG 2.2 AA problems, and the build fails if it finds a serious one.
• The test can be taken from start to end with a keyboard only, and you can always see where the focus is.
• Every screen fits a narrow phone without sideways scrolling.
• Buttons, and the links on the page for judges, are at least 48 pixels tall, so they are easy to tap. A link inside a sentence or a list of credits is the height of its text.
• Text colours are checked against their backgrounds for contrast, in light and dark mode.
• Movement only plays if your device has not asked for less motion.
• Every sentence is checked for plain words, aiming at a reading age of about 12.
• Every photo has a text description, and it never gives away the answer to a test question.

What is not perfect yet

The test is about what you can see in photos, so it cannot be taken without sight. The creek videos have no sound, so they need no captions, and each has a written description below the check. They have no audio description. The creek check's questions and answers, and its Back, Next and Send buttons, come in the six languages of the OneAquaHealth app, in its own translations, which we have not checked for plain words. The rest of the site, this page included, is in English. A question with no checked translation is shown in English with a small English tag, and each part tells a screen reader which language it is in.

Tell us about a problem

Questions: alejandro-publius@berkeley.edu