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Accessibility Statement

Cedar & Breath aims to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA, and in several specific places we have deliberately gone beyond it. Here is what we have done, what we know is imperfect, and how to tell us when something does not work.

Last updated October 27, 2026.

Our target

We build this site to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium. We are not claiming formal certification by a third party. We are telling you the standard we work to and inviting you to hold us to it.

What we have done

  • Text contrast beyond the requirement. Level AA asks for a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for ordinary text. Every ordinary text colour on this site is at least 7:1 against its background, which is the Level AAA threshold. We measured every combination rather than estimating.
  • Text that is large enough to begin with. Body text is set at 19 pixels with a line height of 1.7 and lines capped at roughly 68 characters, so you should not need to zoom to read comfortably. If you do zoom, the layout reflows to 400% without a horizontal scrollbar.
  • Generous targets. Every button, form control and standalone link is at least 44 pixels tall, well above the 24-pixel Level AA minimum, with space between adjacent targets. Links that sit inside a sentence keep the height of the line they are in, which is the explicit exception the standard allows and which avoids breaking up the paragraph.
  • Links you can see. Links inside body text are always underlined, not distinguished by colour alone.
  • Full keyboard operation. Everything can be reached and operated with a keyboard, the focus outline is visible and high contrast, the focus order follows the reading order, and there are no keyboard traps.
  • A skip link as the first focusable item on every page.
  • Proper structure. Real landmarks, one level-one heading per page, headings that descend in order without skipping, real lists, and tables with proper header cells and captions.
  • Meaningful alternative text on every photograph. Decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology.
  • Forms with visible labels attached to their fields, hint text linked with aria-describedby, required fields marked in words rather than only with an asterisk, and native browser validation rather than custom error handling.
  • No motion to speak of. No carousels, no auto-playing video or audio, no animation beyond a short colour change, nothing that moves on its own. Any transition is removed entirely when your system requests reduced motion.
  • No pop-ups covering content. The cookie banner sits at the bottom of the page and does not block anything.
  • Consistent navigation in the same place and the same order on every page, with the current page marked both visually and in code.
  • A print stylesheet so pages can be printed and read on paper without the navigation, the advertising or the footer.

Known limitations

We would rather list these than pretend they are not there:

  • Some photographs sourced from third parties are illustrative rather than instructional. Their alternative text describes what is in the picture, but no description of a photograph is as good as the photograph for a reader who can see it.
  • Wide tables scroll sideways inside their own container on narrow screens. The container is keyboard scrollable, but a very wide table on a small phone remains harder to read than it is on a larger screen.
  • Third-party advertising is served by an external network. We control where the slot sits, how it is labelled and how much space it reserves, but we do not control the accessibility of the advertisement that appears inside it.
  • We test with keyboard navigation, browser zoom and automated checks on every page. We do not currently run a formal audit with a paid external assessor.

How we test

Every page is checked with keyboard-only navigation, at 200% and 400% zoom, at screen widths from 320 pixels upward, with an automated accessibility checker, and with a contrast calculation run over the full colour palette rather than sampled. Markup is validated. We do these checks before publishing, not afterwards.

Telling us about a problem

If any part of this site is hard or impossible for you to use, please tell us. This is the most useful message we receive and we treat it as a priority.

Email classes@cedarandbreath.info with "Accessibility" in the subject line, telephone (802) 555‑0156 during office hours (Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm Eastern Time), or use the contact form and choose the accessibility topic. It helps if you can tell us the page address, what you were trying to do, what happened, and what you were using — browser, device, and any assistive technology.

We reply within five business days. If the fix is quick we will make it and tell you when it is live. If it is not quick we will tell you what we are going to do and roughly when, and we will come back to you when it is done.

If you need information from this site in another format, ask. We will send it as plain text, large print or a tagged document, free of charge.

How to reach us

Questions about this policy, or a request you would like us to act on:

Cedar & Breath
17 Pearl Street, Suite 2B
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
Email: classes@cedarandbreath.info
Telephone: (802) 555‑0156
Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm Eastern Time