Accessibility Statement

We build websites for a living, and we think an inaccessible website is a broken website rather than a website missing a feature. So we hold our own site to the standard we would hold a client's.

This statement says what we have actually done, what we know is not right yet, and how to tell us when we have got something wrong. It is not a badge. If you find something on this site you cannot use, section 6 tells you how to reach a person who will fix it.

We aim to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA.

This site is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Partially conformant means most of the site meets the standard, and the parts that do not are named in section 4 rather than left for you to discover.

We have chosen not to claim full conformance. Two reasons. The site has not been independently audited, and a conformance claim resting only on our own testing is a claim about our confidence rather than about the site. And one part of the site, the booking scheduler, is built by another company and we cannot make representations about code we did not write.

We assessed this site by self evaluation, carried out by the team that built it. That included reviewing the code against the WCAG 2.2 success criteria, keyboard testing, testing at a range of viewport sizes and zoom levels, and testing with reduced motion enabled at the operating system level.

We have not commissioned an independent third party audit, and we have not carried out formal usability testing with disabled users. Both of those find things that code review does not. Saying so is more useful to you than a statement implying a rigor we have not applied.

The booking scheduler. The scheduler on our contact page, and the same one at the foot of our home page, is provided by Calendly and runs inside a frame on our page. We do not control its markup, its focus behavior, its color contrast, or its screen reader output, and we cannot fix a defect inside it. If you cannot use the scheduler, email us at tony@runsimpler.com and we will book the call for you by hand. That is a real alternative and not a brush off.

Autoplaying video. Our home page carries short silent video loops that begin on their own when they scroll into view. If you have reduced motion enabled in your operating system, they never play at all. On a phone or any other touch device only one ever plays at a time, but one does play. And we do not currently offer an on screen control to stop a loop that is already playing, which WCAG success criterion 2.2.2 asks for.

Third party content generally. Anything embedded from another company, and anything we link to on another company's site, is outside our control.

This is the substantive part, and every item here is something in the code rather than an intention.

Getting around with a keyboard. Every page starts with a skip link that jumps you past the navigation to the main content. Every interactive control is reachable and operable with a keyboard alone, in an order that follows the visual order of the page.

Seeing where you are. Focus indicators are defined deliberately across the site's stylesheets rather than left to the browser default, so the focused element is visible against whatever it sits on. We designed for the WCAG 2.2 criteria on focus appearance and on focus not being obscured by sticky headers or overlays, which is a common failure on sites with a fixed header, and this site has a fixed header.

Reduced motion is respected properly. If you have set reduced motion in your operating system, this site does not play its animations at a slower speed or a smaller distance. It does not play them. Video loops do not start, arrival animations do not run, and the still frame is the design rather than a fallback. That behavior is implemented across the site's component library rather than in one or two places.

Text you can actually read. Body text is set to a measure of roughly 60 to 70 characters per line, line height between 1.4 and 1.6, ranged left and never justified. Text reflows to a single column without horizontal scrolling down to a 320 pixel viewport, remains readable at 200 percent zoom, and does not break when you override text spacing in your browser. Text is real text, not pictures of text.

Contrast and color. Text, interface components, and meaningful graphics were designed against the WCAG 2.2 contrast requirements. Color is never the only way information is conveyed, so a status, a link, or a state is never something you have to see a color to understand.

Touch targets. Interactive controls are sized to meet the WCAG 2.2 target size requirement, which matters most on phones and for anyone whose hands are not steady.

Names that match labels. Buttons and links have accessible names that match their visible text, so a speech input user saying what they see on screen activates the control they meant. Headings describe the section they head and form labels describe the field they label.

Structure a screen reader can use. Pages use real landmarks and a heading hierarchy that reflects the actual structure of the page rather than being chosen for how large the text looks.

Legal pages built for reading. The page you are reading uses numbered sections, a table of contents, and linkable anchors on every section, so you can be sent straight to a clause instead of being told to scroll.

If you hit a barrier on this site, please tell us. We would rather hear it from you than not know.

Email tony@runsimpler.com.

It helps if you can tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened, plus your browser and any assistive technology you use. If that is more effort than you want to spend, send us the page and we will work it out.

We aim to acknowledge accessibility feedback within 2 business days and to tell you what we intend to do about it within 10 business days. Where a fix will take longer, we will say so and we will offer you another way to get what you needed.

If any part of this site or our services is not usable for you, we will provide the same information or complete the same task another way, at no cost to you. That includes booking a call by email instead of using the scheduler, sending a document in a format that works for you, or talking it through on a call.

Ask at tony@runsimpler.com.

Accessibility is not something a site passes once. We review this site against WCAG 2.2 Level AA when we make significant changes to it, and we update this statement when what it says stops being true.

We review at least every 12 months, and after any significant change to the site, with Anthony Drummond as the named owner.