Accessibility
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The standard
This site is built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. Every control works from the keyboard and shows where the focus is. Headings, lists and quotations are marked up as what they are, so a screen reader can navigate by them. If your system asks for reduced motion, the page stops moving: the one animation, a model of the compound Scooby is trained on, holds still at an angle that keeps all of it readable.
How we test
Every release runs an automated WCAG A and AA sweep over every page on the site, and a violation fails the release. Contrast is measured against the page as it renders rather than against the color values in the stylesheet, because the green sections are a gradient and the two numbers are not the same: the flat color gives 5.54:1, and the lightest point of the gradient gives 4.79:1. Layout is checked down to a 320-pixel screen. We add keyboard and screen-reader passes by hand on top of that.
Known limitations
Two videos in the press section play in an embedded YouTube player. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play, but once it does, that player is Google’s and we cannot hold it to the standard the rest of the site is held to. Focus opens on the Close button rather than inside the player, so Escape always works and the player is one deliberate Tab away.
Feedback
If something on this site blocks you, tell us and we will fix it. Emailcontact@k9scooby.org, and say which page and what happened.