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Accessibility Statement

How accessible Lumen is, where it falls short, and how to tell us.

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Lumen is committed to being usable by as many people as possible, and we would rather describe where we currently are than claim a level we have not tested.

1.What we aim for

WCAG 2.1 level AA. We are partially conformant: most of the application meets it, and the exceptions below do not.

2.What is in place

  • Colour contrast is checked when a design is generated. Text on background, muted text, and text on the accent colour are each required to clear the AA ratio, and a generated palette that fails is corrected rather than published.
  • Every page has a skip link, a single main landmark and a proper heading order.
  • The application works from the keyboard, and focus is visible.
  • Images carry alternative text, and the generator requires it rather than leaving it blank.
  • The interface works down to a 390 pixel wide screen without horizontal scrolling.
  • Forms have real labels, and errors are announced rather than only coloured.

3.Where we fall short

  • The drag-to-reorder in the editor works with a mouse, a pen and a finger, but has no keyboard equivalent yet. The up and down controls next to each block do the same job and are reachable from the keyboard.
  • The live preview is an embedded frame; a screen reader entering it is reading the generated website, which may itself have problems we did not introduce.
  • We have not yet tested the whole application with every major screen reader.
  • Voice input depends on your browser’s own speech support and is not available in all of them.

4.Sites built with Lumen

Generated sites inherit the accessible structure described above, because the markup comes from a fixed component library rather than from a model. What you add afterwards is yours: if you paste in an image without alternative text, or pick colours that do not contrast, the site will have that problem.

5.Tell us

If something here is unusable for you, write to socialsprouts1@gmail.com and tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way. We will reply within 5 working days and tell you what we can do about it.

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