Accessibility Statement

The standard we build to

Apex Gallery is built to conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. That is the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act in practice, by Section 508, and by the European Accessibility Act. We treat it as a floor, not a ceiling.

What is already true

• Keyboard. Every control can be reached and operated with a keyboard alone. Focus is visible on every theme, not just the dark ones, because a focus ring that disappears on a light background is not a focus ring.
• Reduced motion. If your system asks for less motion, the entry curtain still appears and still opens, and nothing animates. Nothing is withheld from you and nothing moves.
• No motion trap. There is no scroll-hijacking, no carousel that advances on its own, and no autoplaying audio anywhere in the gallery chrome.
• Contrast. Text is checked against its background on all four themes. Ivory exists for exactly this reason: a dark interface is a preference, not a requirement, and some people cannot read one.
• Touch targets. Every tappable thing clears 44 by 44 pixels on a touch device.
• Small screens. Every page is audited at 320 pixels wide. Audited, not resized.
• Structure. Real headings in order, real landmarks, real labels on every form field, and alternative text where an image carries meaning.

Where we know it is imperfect

Honesty is worth more here than a clean claim.

• The live card previews. Each card can render a real site inside it on hover. Those frames are hidden from assistive technology on purpose, because a screen reader should not be dragged through twenty other websites nested inside a grid. The card title, vertical, and description carry the meaning instead, and the full site opens in its own tab where it can be read properly.
• The showcase builds. The demonstration sites are built to the same standard, but a few of them are deliberately experimental. The desktop-metaphor gym site is the obvious one. It collapses to an ordinary stacked layout on a phone, and where an interface metaphor could stand between somebody and the content, the content is reachable without it.
• Third-party photography. Decorative imagery is marked decorative. Anything carrying meaning is described.

How this is tested

Keyboard-only passes, screen reader passes with VoiceOver, contrast checks against the WCAG contrast ratios on all four themes, and manual review at 320 pixels. Automated tools catch perhaps a third of real accessibility problems, so they are used, and they are not trusted on their own.

If something locks you out

Tell me and I will fix it. Ask on any card in the room, or write to Teal Apex Solutions LLC, Columbia County, Georgia. Say what page it was, what you were trying to do, and what assistive technology you were using if you know it. I will acknowledge within two business days and I will tell you honestly when the fix is going in.

A barrier report is not a complaint I have to manage. It is a bug, and I want it.