Accessibility

Our target

We build and test this site to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, and go beyond AA where it is cheap to do so. This is a self-assessment: it has not been audited or certified by an independent third party, and we don’t claim a conformance certificate we don’t hold.

What is checked automatically, on every change

These run in continuous integration and block a change from being merged if they fail, so they are checked on every release rather than once a year:

• Automated page audits — axe-core runs across the site’s primary routes in both light and dark themes. Zero serious or critical violations is the pass mark.
• Colour contrast — every documented text and interface colour pairing is checked by a contrast matrix in both themes: at least 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, borders, icons and focus rings.
• Reflow and zoom — pages must reflow to a 320px-wide window at 200% zoom with no horizontal scrolling and no lost content.
• Target size — a 24×24px minimum is enforced, with 44×44px as our own house standard for buttons and icon controls.
• Reduced motion and high contrast — with “reduce motion” enabled, animation is neutralised; under forced-colours / Windows High Contrast, the site must stay operable and pass the same audit.
• Keyboard operation — the skip link and the readiness quiz are driven by keyboard alone in an automated test.
• Components — every component in our design system is audited individually, and an icon-only control cannot ship without an accessible name (the type system rejects it).

What we check by hand

Once per release we drive the main journeys — home, the readiness quiz, sign-in and membership, and a long-form guide — using a keyboard only, with NVDA on Firefox and VoiceOver on Safari, at 200% zoom, in a 320px window, with reduce-motion on, and in Windows High Contrast.

What we have not verified

Stated plainly, because the gaps are the useful part of a statement like this:

• No independent audit. Our accessibility audit of record is our own review (dated 28 June 2026); no external body has assessed or certified this site.
• Automated testing has limits. Automated tools catch a minority of accessibility problems. Passing our gate means no serious or critical machine-detectable violation on the routes we test — not that the site is free of barriers.
• Coverage is the routes we test. The automated audit covers the primary journeys, not literally every page and every state.
• Third-party and embedded content. Where a page embeds something we didn’t build, we can’t guarantee it meets the same bar.
• Forced-colours contrast is handed to your operating system’s palette rather than checked by us.

Telling us about a problem

If any part of this site is hard to use, email hello@vocabotics.com and tell us the page and what happened — a real person reads it. We will acknowledge you, tell you honestly whether and when we can fix it, and offer the information another way in the meantime. If we’ve got something wrong on this page, we would rather hear it than keep the page tidy.