Site Information
Accessibility
Our commitment: rightsandresponsibilities.ai is built to be accessible to everyone. We target WCAG 2.1 Level AAA — the highest standard — across all articles and pages.
This is not a disclaimer. It is the standard we hold ourselves to and actively test against.
What We Have Built
Every article on this site includes:
- Easy Read and Full Text versions — toggle between a simplified card-based version and the complete analysis
- Read Aloud — browser-based text-to-speech with play, pause, and stop controls, with visual highlighting of the current paragraph
- Text size controls — five sizes, adjustable at any time
- Dark and light themes — with automatic detection of your system preference
- Skip to main content link — visible on keyboard focus, bypasses navigation
- Keyboard navigation — all interactive elements are reachable and operable by keyboard
- ARIA labels — all interactive elements, regions, and meaningful components are labelled for screen readers
- Colour contrast — all text and UI elements meet or exceed WCAG AAA contrast ratios (7:1 for normal text)
- Reduced motion — animations and transitions are suppressed for users who have indicated a preference
- Semantic HTML — correct heading hierarchy, landmark regions, and list structure throughout
- Abbreviation expansion — all abbreviations include full text on hover and for screen readers
- Reading progress indicator — visual progress bar for sighted users, labelled for screen readers
Known Limitations and Work in Progress
French language versions of all articles are in development. We recognize this is a significant accessibility gap for francophone readers and are working to address it.
Social card images currently have descriptive alt text in meta tags but are not individually described within articles. We are working on improving this.
The transcript section in Article 04 is a collapsible region. We are testing this pattern with screen readers to ensure it behaves correctly across all assistive technologies.
Standards We Target
We build to WCAG 2.1 Level AAA — the highest level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Where AAA is not achievable for a particular component, we document the exception here and work toward a solution.
We use the Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface throughout — designed specifically for low vision readers, with letter forms optimized to reduce confusion between similar characters.
We test using keyboard-only navigation, VoiceOver (macOS and iOS), and colour contrast analysis tools.
If You Experience a Barrier
If any part of this site is not accessible to you, we want to know. Tell us what you were trying to do, what happened, and what device or assistive technology you were using. We will respond and work to fix it.
We do not treat accessibility reports as complaints. We treat them as contributions.
Contact Us
For accessibility issues, feedback, or requests:
contact@rightsandresponsibilities.ai
We will respond within 5 business days for accessibility issues — sooner where possible.
Our Approach
rightsandresponsibilities.ai publishes analysis about rights and the responsibilities that correspond to them. Accessibility is not separate from that mission — it is part of it. A site about rights that is not accessible to disabled people is not living its own argument.
We will keep working on it.