tested, untested, and answerable
Accessibility
Three lists: what was actually tested, what was not, and the questions this office will put to an operator on your behalf.
Tested
- Without a mouse
- Every control can be reached and operated from the keyboard across all four grounds in use here, and the ring showing your position stays visible on each of them
- Heading order
- A single h1 per page, with everything below descending exactly one level at a time and nothing skipped
- Contrast
- Measured pair by pair against the ground each piece of text actually sits on, which is often not white
- Alternative text
- Written by looking at the picture. Decorative images carry none, on the view that silence beats hearing a caption twice
- The pace marks
- A filled fraction of a bar, so the meaning survives a grayscale print and every form of color blindness
- Zoom
- Reflows at four hundred percent with no sideways scrollbar
- Arrival of sections
- They shift ten pixels into place and are never made invisible, so a broken animation cannot swallow the page. Asking for less motion switches it off
- Fields
- Real labels, errors in words beside the field, and no meaning carried by color alone
Not tested, and therefore not claimed
- Screen readers
- One reader, one browser. Not the full spread, and this page will not pretend otherwise
- Voice control
- Not tested at all
- High contrast and forced colors modes
- Not tested
- Old browsers
- Not tested below the last two major versions
Where it falls short
- The six rows
- On a narrow phone the table on each trip page scrolls sideways. Legible, but not comfortable
- Language
- Plainer English than this trade usually manages, and available in that one language only
- The catalog page
- Seventeen cards is a long scroll on a phone, and there is no filter to shorten it
Access on the trips themselves
A page like this usually stops at the markup, which would be strange here. This entire catalog is sorted by the shape of a day, and the shape of a day is precisely the territory access questions occupy.
Part of the answer is already on every trip page: the earliest start with a clock time on it, how many hours are committed, and the longest unbroken stretch that is yours. Two of the seventeen name their stairs and one names its ladder.
Absent so far is the property level detail: how many steps stand at a given entrance, whether that building has a lift at all, the layout of a particular bathroom. Those answers live with individual buildings and vary wildly between them. Raise it and the operator gets asked in plain language: how many steps, how wide the doorway, whether a chair fits through it. The answer is passed to you word for word, refusals included.
Reporting something
A single line to onfile@rowanlogbook.com does it. Name the page, name what you were reading it with, describe what failed. The reply is either a repair with a date on it or an admission that there will not be one. It is never nothing.