Accessibility

What standard do you aim for?

WCAG 2.2, level AA.

Before each release every page is checked automatically for text contrast, control names and heading order, then again at 375, 768 and 1,440 px wide for touch targets and sideways scrolling. Automated checks don't catch everything a person meets, which is why the last section of this page exists.

Can I cut a crop with a keyboard?

Yes.

The search, the volumes and the sheets are buttons and fields you reach with the Tab key. On the sheet, the crop frame takes focus: the arrow keys move it by a hundredth of the sheet's width, and with Shift held, by a twentieth. The crop size is a slider that answers to the arrow keys and Page Up and Page Down. Every size is a radio button that names its dpi, and a size the crop can't hold says so in words as well as being struck through.

What does a screen reader hear?

Every step and every number, as text.

Each request to the Library is announced as it happens ("Asking the Library for Astoria", "Fetching 6 regions at full size, 3 of 6"), and so is any pause or failure, with what to do next. The readout under the crop is announced when it changes, and the proof carries a description and a caption with its pixels and its dpi. Payment happens on Stripe's own checkout page, which Stripe builds and maintains.

Does anything move?

Only what you move, and the progress bar while regions arrive.

Nothing animates on its own. With reduced motion switched on in your device's settings, the readouts and the progress still update, because they are information, and nothing else changes on screen.

Where does it still fall short?

• The sheets themselves are scans of drawn maps. A screen reader can't read the street names, house numbers or building colours on them, and we don't describe each sheet.
• Finding your street means looking at the sheet. The Library's catalogue finds towns; it can't find an address.
• The slip on the proof and the print is part of the image; its text is also in the citation you can save as a plain-text file.

How do I tell you something doesn't work?

Write to support@painted.app.

Say which page and what happened, and what you were using if you know it: the browser, a screen reader, a magnifier. If any part of finding a sheet or ordering gets in your way, write to us with the town and the street, and we'll find the sheet and set up the order with you by email. Post reaches us at PaintedApp, LLC, 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202, United States.