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A gently rising concrete ramp beside three shallow steps, with a metal handrail.

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.

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