Accessibility

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

What we do

• Semantic HTML, a skip link, visible focus and full keyboard access.
• Layouts that reflow at 200–400% zoom and at phone widths.
• Every page works without JavaScript. The style strands explorer, search and menu are enhancements on top of ordinary linked lists.
• Hair texture, age group and evidence status are never shown by colour alone: each is labelled in words.
• Alt text describes a hairstyle’s shape, texture, placement and any tools shown — not how attractive anyone is. Older people are not described only by their age.
• If we add video, it will have captions and a transcript, and audio description where a technique depends on movement.
• We respect reduced-motion settings. There are no animated backgrounds.

How the site is checked

Every time the site is built, it is checked automatically for missing alt text, heading structure, page titles and broken links. Text and focus-outline colours have been checked against the WCAG contrast requirements.

The site has not yet been tested by disabled users, and automated checks cannot find every problem. If you use a screen reader, magnification, voice control, keyboard-only navigation or any other assistive technology and something does not work for you, we would very much like to know.

Report a barrier

Email [email protected] and tell us the page and what went wrong. Every email is read, and we will reply in a timely manner, on a best-effort basis, and fix what we can.

This statement was last reviewed on 12 November 2026.

Last updated 12 November 2026.