Accessibility

What we’ve built in

• High-contrast mode. Toggle it in the header (it’s remembered), or let it follow your system “increase contrast” setting.
• Colorblind-safe: we never rely on color alone; status and categories always carry a text label or shape too.
• Reduced motion. The scrolling history timeline and all animations respect your “reduce motion” preference.
• Keyboard & screen readers get a skip link, semantic landmarks, visible focus, and ARIA on interactive controls.
• The map has a text equivalent. Every dispensary on the map is also in an accessible list with full-size links.

How we test

Each build runs automated checks (axe-core and Pa11y, WCAG 2.2 AA) in CI, plus manual keyboard and screen-reader passes on the map and timeline. Automated tools catch only part of the picture, so human testing is part of every release.

A note on the map

Map markers are positioned by geography, so closely-spaced markers can fall below the minimum target size. Under WCAG 2.2 SC 2.5.8 this is permitted because an equivalent control exists: the full, keyboard-accessible dispensary list provides the same information and actions at full size.

Found a barrier?

If anything here is hard to use, tell us. We treat accessibility issues as priority bugs. Email kevin@vcodeworks.dev.