Accessibility

This site should be usable whether you read it with your eyes, listen to it with a screen reader, or navigate it entirely from the keyboard. This page says plainly what has been done and what has not.

The standard being aimed at

The target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, at Level AA. That is the level United States courts read the Americans with Disabilities Act against, and the level the European Accessibility Act requires.

What has been done

• Every photograph and illustration carries a written description, and decorative images are marked so screen readers skip them.
• Headings run in order, so a screen reader can jump through a page by structure.
• Every function works from the keyboard alone, including the menu and the map.
• Text meets the required contrast against its background, checked by measurement rather than by eye.
• Controls announce what they are and whether they are open, including the mobile menu.
• Type is set at a comfortable size and reflows down to a narrow phone without side-scrolling.
• Typefaces load from this domain, so text appears quickly rather than after a delay.

Conformance status

This site is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Partially conformant means most of the standard is met, but it has not been fully verified by manual testing with assistive technology, so full conformance is not claimed.

Standard	WCAG 2.1, Level AA
Status	Partially conformant
Last evaluated	27 September 2026
Method	Automated testing with axe-core 4.10.2 across all 13 pages
Result	No violations reported
Assessed by	Self-assessment, not an independent third-party audit

How it was tested

Every page was checked with axe, an automated testing engine, against the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules. The last run reported no violations. One genuine failure was found and fixed during that work: a small label whose colour gave a contrast ratio of 3.25 to 1 where 4.5 to 1 is required.

Automated testing has limits. It catches perhaps a third to a half of real problems, and it cannot judge whether a description is a good one or whether a page makes sense read aloud. This site has not yet been tested by people using screen readers day to day, so no claim of full conformance is made.

Known gaps

• The map on the destinations pages is inherently visual. Everywhere it shows is also listed as text below it, and each place has its own page, so nothing is reachable only through the map.
• No manual testing with assistive technology has been done yet.

If something gets in your way

Please say so. Write to hello@postcardsbyheather.com with the page address and what happened. You will get a reply within five working days, and accessibility problems are treated as faults to fix, not as requests to consider.

If you need something on this site in another format, ask and it will be provided.