Real HTML underneath
Headings run in order with one main heading per page. Links behave like links, buttons like buttons, lists like lists. That is what gives a screen reader something sensible to read out.
Placeholder footage, not the brothers
Everyone gets to see the wrinkles
Built formorepeople
Potato and Hash want everybody to enjoy the naps, the snacks and the silly faces. Here is what we have actually built to make that possible, and where the site still falls short.
Where we stand
- Target
- WCAG 2.2, level AA.
- Independent audit
- None has been carried out.
- Certification claimed
- None. Aiming is not the same as proving.
Not a wish list
What the site already does
Every card below is in the site today. None of it is a plan, and all of it can be checked by a visitor in about ten seconds.
A skip link that works
Press Tab as soon as a page loads and the first thing you reach jumps you past the menu straight to the content. It is fixed to the viewport, so nothing on the page can hide it.
Everything reachable by keyboard
Every link, button and menu can be reached with Tab and used with Enter or the space bar. The mobile menu moves focus to its first item, keeps focus inside itself, and closes on Escape with focus returned to the button.
Focus you can actually see
Whatever you land on gets a thick ring in a colour chosen for the surface it sits on. Where an element sits inside a clipped box, the ring is drawn inside its own edge so it cannot be sliced off.
Targets big enough for a thumb
The guideline asks for 24 pixels. Controls on this site are designed to 48, with space around them, so you are less likely to hit the wrong one.
Reduced motion is obeyed
If your device is set to reduce motion, every animation collapses and every decorative rotation goes to zero degrees. Nothing bobs, nothing slides in, and the page straightens itself out.
Contrast checked by a script
Every colour pairing on this site is listed in a file and recomputed on every build. If a pairing drops below the WCAG 2.2 AA threshold the build stops. Colours are not judged by eye.
Links never rely on colour
Links inside text are underlined, always. Form errors show a message and a thicker edge, not just a change of colour. Nothing on this site is explained by colour alone.
It works without JavaScript
Scroll effects are decoration layered on afterwards. If a script is blocked or fails, the content is already there and fully readable rather than stuck invisible.
It reflows at 320 pixels
The narrow width the guideline asks about was measured rather than assumed. There is no sideways scrolling, and enlarging text to 200 percent rewraps the page instead of breaking it.
Honest alt text
Pictures carry a short description. Decoration is marked as decoration so it can be skipped. The photos are currently stand ins rather than the real brothers, and every one of them says the word placeholder out loud.
High contrast mode is handled
When Windows high contrast replaces the palette, the shadows and tints that carry edges on this site vanish, so real borders are drawn instead and the texture overlay is removed.
The honest half
Where it falls short
An accessibility statement that only lists wins is marketing. These are the gaps we know about right now.
Nobody independent has tested it
There has been no external audit, no expert review and no user testing with disabled people. We are telling you what we built and what we aimed at, which is not the same as proving we hit it.
There is no certificate, and there is no conformance report
This site is not certified, not accredited and not legally checked. No accessibility conformance report exists for it. Anyone claiming otherwise about this site would be wrong.
Screen reader coverage is thin
The site has not been tested against every combination of screen reader, browser and operating system. Something that reads perfectly in one may read oddly in another, and we would not yet know.
Some parts are not ours to fix
The bot check on the contact and newsletter forms is a Cloudflare widget. Video players and anything embedded from another service behave the way their makers built them. We cannot change what happens inside them.
The site is young
New pages keep arriving. A new page can land with a mistake in it, and there is a fair chance you will notice before we do.
The part that helps most
Tell us what got in your way.
A real person reads it, and you will get a friendly reply. Nobody will ever be made to feel silly for asking. One sentence saying the buttons are too small on my phone is genuinely useful.
Your device, your rules
Three settings that already work here
Make the text bigger
Hold Control and press plus, or Command and plus on a Mac. The layout is built to rewrap rather than break.
Turn on reduce motion
It lives in the accessibility settings on most phones and computers. This site follows it without being asked.
Use a reader or a read aloud tool
Because the pages are plain HTML underneath, those tools get clean text to work with.
Owner suppliedHow quickly a reply to an accessibility message is promised, and the date this statement was last reviewed. Neither is written here, because neither has been agreed, and a guessed promise is a promise that gets broken.
No claim of conformanceThis statement describes intent and effort. It is not a conformance claim, not an accessibility conformance report, and not a legal assessment. Accessibility is never finished, and this page will keep being rewritten as the site changes.
The rest of the paperwork