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Accessibility
An atlas about people excluded from their region's story should not exclude anyone from its own. This page says what that means in practice — and where we still fall short.
What's built in
Designed to be readable by everyone
Motion: every animation on the site — the hero sequence, scroll reveals, counters, map pulses — is disabled automatically when your system asks for reduced motion (prefers-reduced-motion).
Color & contrast: the palette was validated for contrast on dark surfaces, and each community's accent colour was checked for colour-vision deficiency; charts never rely on colour alone.
Charts & maps: every chart has a text description and a “view as table” fallback; maps carry captions and text legends, and tooltips work by tap as well as hover.
Structure: semantic HTML with a skip-to-content link, meaningful alt text on every image, and relative units throughout, so text scales with your browser settings.
Video: the short film loops are ambient — they contain no speech or essential information, so no captions are needed; each carries a descriptive label.
Known limitations
Where we still fall short
Map tooltips ask for reasonably precise pointing; the same information is always available in the caption and legend text. Some archival photographs are low-resolution scans. A few long diacritic-heavy terms may challenge screen-reader pronunciation.
The target is WCAG 2.1 AA. We are not perfect at it yet, and we would rather hear about failures than guess.
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If anything on this site is hard to read, hear or operate, email us — accessibility fixes take priority over new content. Statement last reviewed: July 2026.