Built to be used by everyone.
We serve families whose lives are shaped by access, so a site that is hard to use would be a contradiction. This page says exactly what we have done, what we have not, and how to tell us when we have got it wrong.
Our standard.
We build to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That is the standard most governments and most serious organisations use, and it is the one worth aiming at.
Every image is described
All 65 images across the site carry alt text. Photographs are described by what is actually happening in them, and decorative images are marked as decorative so a screen reader skips them rather than reading a filename aloud.
Nothing smaller than 44 pixels
Every button, link and control clears a 44 by 44 pixel target. That is the floor in Apple's guidelines and it is the difference between a site you can use with imprecise motor control and one you cannot.
Contrast is measured, not guessed
Our colours are chosen against measured ratios, not by eye. The greens in our palette exist in several versions precisely so that green text on a light background and white text on a green fill both clear the 4.5:1 minimum.
Colour never carries meaning alone
Anything signalled by colour is signalled another way too. Errors carry an icon and a sentence telling you what to fix. The current page in the menu changes fill and tells a screen reader outright. Nothing depends on distinguishing navy from green.
What that means in practice.
The specifics, so you can check them rather than take our word for it.
Keyboard and screen reader
Every page opens with a skip link so you can jump straight past the menu. Focus is always visible. The waitlist form uses real fieldsets and legends, its error messages are tied to their fields, and when a submission succeeds we move focus to the confirmation so it is announced rather than leaving you in silence on a button that has vanished.
Motion
If your device asks for reduced motion, we honour it in six separate places. The partner strip is the one worth naming: it does not merely slow down, it stops being a moving strip at all and becomes a still grid of logos. An endlessly scrolling band is exactly the kind of thing that costs some people the page.
Reading and typing
Running text is capped at a comfortable line length with generous leading, because a wall of full-width text is harder for everyone and much harder for some. Form fields are set at 16 pixels, which stops iPhones zooming the page the moment you tap into one and stranding you at 1.3x with the rest of the form off screen.
Zoom and small screens
The page reflows down to a 320 pixel wide screen without ever scrolling sideways, and it survives being zoomed. Where a layout could not hold, we changed the layout rather than letting something get clipped.
What we have not done.
A page like this is worth nothing if it only lists the good news.
We have not had an independent audit. Everything above was built and checked by us. That is not the same as a specialist testing it, and we will not pretend otherwise. We have not tested with every combination of screen reader and browser, and there will be things we have missed. The app is a separate matter and will need its own testing before it opens. This page covers this website.
Tell us what broke
Email us with the page and what happened. You do not need the right words for it. "The green text was hard to read on my phone" is a perfect bug report.
We answer
A person reads it, replies, and tells you whether we can fix it and roughly when. If we cannot fix it quickly we will say so rather than go quiet.
We fix it and say so
Accessibility problems go to the front of the queue. If someone cannot use the site, that outranks whatever else we were building.
Report anything here: thekwirkzfoundation@gmail.com. If something on this site is stopping you from reaching us, ask someone to send it on your behalf and we will treat it exactly the same.
Found something that does not work?
Tell us. You are not complaining, you are doing the thing that actually makes this better, and we would rather hear it from you than not know.
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