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Atlas Redeemed targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. This page says what has been built, what is still broken, and how to tell us when we've got it wrong.
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The people this platform is built for are disproportionately likely to be using an older phone, a shared library computer, or a screen reader — and to be doing it under time pressure. Accessibility here is not a compliance exercise. It is whether the product functions at all.
Our target is WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We do not claim to have met it in full, and this page lists the places we know we haven’t.
These are in place across the site today, not aspirations.
Every interactive control — navigation, filters, tabs, accordions, dialogs, and forms — is reachable and operable with a keyboard alone. Dialogs return focus to the control that opened them, and nothing traps focus.
Focus indicators are never removed. A consistent, high-contrast focus ring is applied through :focus-visible so keyboard users always know where they are.
Every animation on this site respects prefers-reduced-motion. Scroll reveals render in their final state immediately rather than fading in, so no content is ever hidden behind an animation that did not run.
Colour is defined once as design tokens and both the dark and light palettes are tuned for text contrast. Colour is never the only way information is conveyed — status is always carried by a label as well.
Real semantic elements throughout: a single main landmark, navigation and footer landmarks, section elements, and headings that descend in order without skipping levels.
Every input has a visible, associated label. Icon-only buttons carry an accessible name. Form errors are associated with their field rather than announced only by colour.
Interactive targets are sized for a thumb, layouts are mobile-first, and text reflows without horizontal scrolling down to a 360-pixel viewport and at 200% zoom.
Short sentences, concrete words, and no jargon where a plain word exists. Readability is an accessibility feature, and for this audience it may be the most important one.
Publishing an honest gap list is more useful than a conformance claim nobody has verified. Everything here is known, tracked, and being worked on.
Map rendering is still in development, and the interactive map will not be usable by keyboard or screen reader when it first appears. The list view is the equivalent surface and will remain fully functional and complete — no resource will ever exist only on the map.
We have tested with VoiceOver on macOS and iOS. We have not yet completed a full pass with NVDA or JAWS on Windows, or with TalkBack on Android. Findings from those passes will be fixed and this page updated.
Accessibility work so far has been internal. An independent audit is planned before launch, and its findings will be published here, including anything that fails.
A small number of comparison tables scroll sideways on narrow screens. They are marked up as real tables with proper row and column headers, but the horizontal scroll is not ideal and is being reworked into a stacked layout.
Some legal topic pages are longer and more complex than we would like. They are structured with headings and summaries, but the reading level is higher than the rest of the site. Simplifying that copy is ongoing work.
The site is currently English only. Resources that provide services in other languages are noted on their listing, but the interface itself is not translated. This is a real barrier and it is on the roadmap.
Why we don't claim full conformance
If something on this site blocked you, that is a defect and we want it. You do not need to know the technical name for it.
None of it is required. “The filter buttons don’t work with my keyboard” is a perfectly good report.
We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within five working days and to give a fix or a timeline. Please leave case details and legal documents out of your message.
This statement was last reviewed on 20 August 2026 and reflects a self assessment against WCAG 2.2 Level AA carried out by the team that builds the site. It covers every page on atlasredeemed.com.
It is reviewed whenever a significant feature ships and at least twice a year. When the independent audit is complete, this page will be rewritten around its findings — including the failures.