how this site is built
Accessibility
What has been built in, three places this site still falls down, and what a report of a barrier actually gets you.
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Built in
- Order
- A single h1 on each page and headings that descend a step at a time, with none missed out
- Without a mouse
- Every control can be reached and worked from the keyboard, and the ring showing where you are stays visible on all four grounds this site uses
- Contrast
- Measured against the ground each piece of text actually sits on, rather than against white
- Pictures
- Described from the picture itself. Decoration carries no description at all, which is better than hearing a caption twice
- The band marks
- Length, never color, so a grayscale print and a color blind reader lose nothing
- Movement
- Sections arrive by shifting a few pixels. Nothing is ever made invisible, so a failed animation cannot hide the page, and a preference for less motion removes it entirely
- Magnification
- The page reflows at four hundred percent with no sideways scrollbar
- The form
- Real labels, errors written in words beside the field, and nothing signaled by color alone
Where it still falls short
Three places where it falls short. Leaving them out would be the dishonest choice.
- The party table
- Eight rows on every trip page, and on a narrow telephone it scrolls sideways. Legible, but not pleasant
- Testing
- One screen reader, one browser. Not the full spread
- Language
- Plainer English than most of this trade writes, and still only English
Access on the trips, not only on the website
Most pages like this one stop at the markup. That would be a strange place to stop here, because this catalog is organized around who is travelling, and access questions live exactly there.
Every trip page already prints the supplier's minimum ages, what a room to yourself costs, how the beds are actually made up and whether your party can stay together. What is not printed yet is step free access, whether a lift exists and how a bathroom is laid out, because those answers belong to individual properties and change between them.
Ask, and the question goes to the supplier in those words: how many steps, how wide the door, whether a chair fits. You get the answer that comes back, including when it is no.
Reporting something
Write to booked@heronjunction.com. Name the page, say what you were using and what happened. You get a reply saying whether it can be fixed and when, or saying that it cannot, rather than silence.