Accessibility.
An everyday ritual, open to more people.
What we are aiming for
We want this site to be usable by as many people as possible, whatever they are browsing with. We are working toward WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We are not claiming to have reached it: no formal audit has been done, and what follows is only what we have actually checked ourselves.
What the site does today
- Every page can be reached and used with a keyboard alone, and a skip link jumps you past the navigation to the content.
- Focus stays visible wherever you land.
- All movement — the opening animation, the parallax, the type that arrives as you scroll — switches off completely when your system asks for reduced motion, and the page is whole without it.
- The site works with JavaScript off. Animation is the only thing that needs it.
- Images carry descriptions, and the decorative ones are hidden from screen readers rather than described at you.
- Every page declares its language and has one main heading.
- Text contrast is well clear of AA: brand blue on paper measures 12.9:1, the darker body ink 15.1:1, and paper reversed on blue 12.9:1, against the 4.5:1 the standard asks for.
- Nothing is set in a fixed pixel size that ignores the text size you have chosen in your browser.
Where we fall short
This is more use to you than a clean claim would be.
- The sell sheet is a PDF, and a PDF is a worse document than a page for anyone using a screen reader. It is the trade sheet rather than anything a shopper needs, and if you want what is on it in another form, write to us and we will send it.
- No testing with real assistive technology, by people who use it, has been carried out. Everything above is our own.
- The site has not been checked against a screen magnifier, or at a 400% zoom.
Telling us
If something here gets in your way we would rather know. The page you were on and what happened is enough to go on. Write to balanced@drinkosmea.com.
How this page was prepared
By self-assessment against WCAG 2.2 Level AA, carried out on this site’s own pages, with the contrast figures measured rather than estimated.