Accessibility Statement

1. Our Commitment to Access

As the designer, developer, and maintainer of this website, we want it to work well for everyone who visits, whatever their ability, device, or way of browsing, and we treat accessibility as an ongoing part of how we build and care for every site. Every visitor's combination of device, browser, and settings is a little different, and testing for every one of them is nearly impossible. So we build to a widely shared standard, keep refining our work, and welcome anyone who can show us where to do better.

2. The Standard We Follow

There is no official certification for website accessibility. It isn't something a site earns; it is a choice made in how a site is built. The most widely recognized guide for making that choice well is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It rests on four principles: content should be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. In plain terms, people should be able to see or hear it, use it, make sense of it, and reach it with whatever tools they rely on. We follow it because we agree with it, and it is what we believe in and aim for every one of our sites to achieve, to the best of our ability.

3. What We Look For

When we build or review a site, these are the areas we focus on:

Keyboard Use

Every part of a site should work without a mouse. That means a way to skip straight to the main content, a visible marker showing where you are on the page, and pop-ups that hold keyboard focus while open and return you to where you were when they close.

Screen Reader Structure

Headings follow a logical order, buttons and form fields carry clear labels, images have text descriptions, and interactive pieces such as menus and pop-ups identify what they are.

Text Contrast

Text should stand out clearly from whatever sits behind it. We measure contrast against the actual background, on both desktop and mobile, and aim to meet the WCAG AA contrast ratio.

Zoom and Text Spacing

Pages should stay readable when zoomed up to 400%, when your browser's text size is increased, or when letter, word, and line spacing is widened. Content reflows to fit the screen, so it reads top to bottom without scrolling sideways.

Motion and Media

Anything that moves on its own, such as a carousel or background video, should come with a way to pause it. If your device is set to reduce motion, we scale back animation while keeping all of the content available.

4. Ongoing Work

Accessibility is never finished. Websites change over time, standards evolve, and something may slip through between reviews. A few areas we are still growing into:

• Screen reader software. We build with screen readers such as VoiceOver, JAWS, and NVDA in mind. As a small studio, we test with them as capacity allows, and we are working toward making that testing part of every site.
• Captions. With the video projects we produce, we deliver reviewed caption files (such as SRT) that can be turned on or off, rather than burning captions into the picture. Videos we embed on the sites we manage carry those reviewed tracks, though some older videos may still rely on automatic captions. Once a video is delivered, how it is captioned elsewhere is up to its owner, and automatic captions offered by video platforms can be inaccurate. Some videos on the sites we build also come from other sources, and their captions are managed by whoever published them.
• Third-party tools. Some features come from outside services, such as embedded video players, maps, or booking and payment tools. We consider accessibility when choosing them, but the right service for a site depends on many factors, and each provider is responsible for the accessibility of its own tools.

5. Tell Us What Isn't Working

If something on this site is hard to use, or you have a suggestion, we'd love to hear from you. We especially welcome input from anyone who browses with assistive technology or their own accessibility settings. Your experience helps us improve every site we build, and we're committed to getting better at this.

As the team that builds and maintains this site, we're the right people to reach. Email [email protected] with the page and a short description of what happened. We'll work on a fix, follow up with you, and ask you to try it again, and we'll keep at it until the issue is resolved as best we can.