Using This Site

With the script switched off

Every word of every page is still there. Navigation is a plain row of links, opening nothing. No part of any page waits on code before it becomes visible.

The request button arrives switched off and only the script arms it. Every check on a request lives in that script; without it the button would either send something unchecked or, having no method behind it, spill a caller's particulars into the address bar. A note beside it carries the mail address and the telephone.

On a keyboard alone

Links, fields and buttons are all reachable, in the order they appear. Focus shows as a three pixel outline in the darkest red on the site, never suppressed anywhere. First stop on every page is a link that jumps into the reading.

What reaches a screen reader

• A single first level heading per page, with the levels beneath stepping down one at a time
• United States English, declared in the markup
• Every image carries alternative text, and no fact lives only inside a picture
• Genuine header cells on every table, and a row header for each claim on the claims table
• A label on every field. One field is hidden, exists to catch automated submissions, sits outside the tab order and is concealed from assistive software

Color, and the bars beside the nine

Every pairing of text against background was measured. All clear the ratio for ordinary text and the largest clear the stricter one.

Each of the nine facts carries a colored bar down its left edge, and the length of that bar shows shelf life. The bar is decoration and means nothing on its own: shelf life is written in words beside every entry, and the bar is hidden from assistive software. No color and no length is load bearing anywhere on this site.

Movement, and making it bigger

One short fade as a block arrives, and nothing else moves. Where a browser or system asks for reduced motion the fade goes away entirely. Nothing plays, blinks, drifts or covers what is being read.

Text sits in relative units and survives doubling without collisions. Narrow screens get a single column, and wide tables scroll inside their own box instead of dragging the page sideways.

Three places it falls short

1. The shelf bars are faint at small sizes. The words carry the meaning so nothing is lost, but on a phone the visual signal is weak.
2. A wide table on a small phone still wants a sideways drag inside its box.
3. Testing was not exhaustive. A keyboard and the tools at hand, which is a long way from every browser against every screen reader.

Reporting a barrier

The page and what went wrong, to trips@autumnlanes.com. Naming the browser and the assistive software helps; it is not required. Anything standing between a reader and the reading counts as a defect to fix, not a preference to weigh.

Reviewed August 10, 2026.