Accessibility
Access is part of the design, not an appendix to it.
Archive Voices exists to let more people step into other languages and other lives. A beautiful experience that excludes people is simply an unfinished one.
Our commitments
- WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline
- We design and test against the standard rather than retrofitting to it.
- Keyboard navigation
- Every control, filter, and conversation can be reached and operated without a mouse.
- Screen reader compatibility
- Semantic HTML, logical heading order, landmarks, and descriptive labels throughout.
- Captions and transcripts
- Every film ships with captions and a downloadable transcript in the language of the film and in English.
- Contrast and typography
- Generous type sizes, long line spacing, and colour pairings tested for contrast in both themes.
- Reduced motion
- Animation respects the operating system's reduced-motion preference and never carries meaning alone.
- Dark mode
- A fully designed dark theme, not an inversion, with the same contrast standards as the light theme.
- Accessible forms
- Visible labels, inline validation, helpful error text, and errors never signalled by colour alone.
- Responsive and touch-friendly
- Large targets, sensible stacking, and text that enlarges without breaking layout.
- Continuous improvement
- Accessibility is an ongoing design process rather than a completed checklist.
Tell us what isn’t working.
If any part of Archive Voices creates a barrier for you, we want to hear about it directly. We treat accessibility reports as design work and respond to every one.
access@archivevoices.studio
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