Calm Eats

Accessibility

This site is built to be usable with a keyboard, a screen reader, or a phone in one hand while
the other is holding a pan. Where it falls short, we would rather hear about it than guess.

What is in place

  • Semantic structure. One h1 per page, headings in order, real
    lists for ingredients and steps. A screen reader can navigate a recipe by heading.
  • Keyboard access. Every link, the search field, the menu toggle and the
    newsletter form are reachable and operable by keyboard.
  • Contrast. Body text is checked against its background for at least the WCAG AA
    ratio of 4.5:1, and large headings for 3:1.
  • Images. Every recipe photo carries alt text describing the dish, not the
    filename.
  • Text scaling. The layout is set in relative units and holds together when text
    is enlarged to 200%.
  • No motion traps. Nothing auto-plays, nothing flashes, and nothing moves except
    a small hover transition on cards.

Known gaps

Two things are honest to name rather than hide:

  • Wide comparison tables scroll sideways inside their own container on narrow screens. That is
    better than a squeezed layout, but it is still a horizontal scroll.
  • The recipe card puts ingredients and method side by side on a wide screen. Read in source
    order, ingredients come first and method second, which is the order you want, but the visual
    pairing is lost in a linear reading.

Telling us

If something here blocks you, the contact page reaches a person who can change the template.
Say which page and what happened; a screenshot is welcome but not required.