Accessibility

Contrast is measured, not eyeballed. Every accent colour in the design system was tested as body text against the surfaces it sits on. Eleven of the thirteen habitat colours failed AA at their designed value and are used at a darkened variant for text, with the measured ratio recorded beside each one in the stylesheet. The original colours are still used for fills and borders, where the 3:1 threshold applies instead.

Content is in the HTML before any code runs. Pages are pre-rendered, so a screen reader, a text browser or a device with JavaScript disabled gets the whole page. FAQ answers use a native disclosure rather than a scripted accordion, so an answer is present whether or not it is expanded.

Icons never carry meaning alone. Every icon is aria-hidden, and every icon-only control carries a text label on the control itself.

Motion is optional. Everything that animates is disabled under prefers-reduced-motion.

Direction, not alignment. Right-to-left languages get a real dir on the document and logical properties throughout, rather than mirrored margins.

These are open, and listed because they affect real use:

• No independent audit. Everything above is self-assessed. An external audit has not been commissioned.
• No assistive-technology testing round. The site has not been walked through with JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver by somebody who uses them daily. Automated checks and keyboard testing are not a substitute for that.
• The tool workspace has had the least attention. Focus order and status announcements during a long-running job were correct in the compressor, but have not been re-checked since the workspace was rebuilt.
• Nastaliq line heights are approximations. Urdu and Punjabi (Shahmukhi) use adjusted metrics that have not been proofed against real strings by a native reader.

If something here stops you doing what you came to do, say so on the contact page. Tell us the page and what you were trying to do; you do not need to identify the standard it breaks or use any particular words. Accessibility reports go to the front of the queue.