Accessibility on this site
A website about carrying things carefully should itself be easy to handle. This page lists the reading aids built into the site, and the fastest way to flag anything that fights your setup.
The accessibility toolbar
Look for the round button in the bottom-left corner of any page. It opens a small panel of reading settings, and whatever you switch on stays on for this site, on this device, across every page, until you switch it off again.
- Larger text: scales the whole site up a step or two.
- High contrast: darker ink, clearer links.
- Underline links: no link hides in the surrounding words.
- Readable font: a plainer typeface with roomier spacing.
- Pause motion: everything holds still.
- Highlight focus: a bold ring follows the keyboard as you tab around.
There is a Reset in the panel that wipes the lot in one go. The panel itself works entirely from the keyboard and calls no outside service.
What is built into the site itself
The site is designed toward WCAG 2.1 level AA. Plainly: nobody has audited or certified it, and we will not pretend otherwise, but these are the goals it was built and checked against:
- A device set to reduced motion gets a still site automatically, before the toolbar is ever opened.
- Ink and background pairs are picked for contrast, with the high-contrast setting layered on top for anyone who wants more.
- Layouts rearrange for phones, tablets and desktops rather than clipping or trapping anything off-screen.
- Photographs that carry meaning have alt text; purely decorative marks are flagged so screen readers skip past them.
- Headings and landmarks are structured so a screen reader can walk each page in a sensible order.
- A skip-to-content link sits first in the tab order on every page.
- The quote form posts natively, so reaching us never depends on a script loading.
Flag what fights you
Anything on this site that works badly with your screen reader, keyboard or eyes is worth thirty seconds of your time to report, and worth more of ours to fix. Describe the snag in the quote form; a person reads every submission. And if the form itself is the snag, even a two-word message with your number gets a call back so the rest can happen by voice.