Accessibility

What Dogood aims for

The site and the app aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA, the standard Europe’s accessibility rules refer to (EN 301 549). As a microenterprise, Dogood is exempt from the European Accessibility Act’s duties for services; it follows the same standard anyway.

How it is checked

Before any change goes online, automated tests open the site’s pages, on a computer and on a phone, and the app’s screens and dialogs, and check them with axe-core against the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules: contrast, names of buttons and links, text alternatives, headings, labels, the language of each page. They also check that the keyboard focus can always be seen. Such tests find many problems, not all of them: what you tell us matters.

What Dogood does for it

• Everything works with a keyboard: links, buttons, menus and dialogs. A dialog keeps the focus while it is open and closes with Escape; on the site, a link at the top skips straight to the content.
• The keyboard focus is always shown, and always on screen.
• Animations calm down when your device asks for reduced motion.
• Pages follow your browser’s zoom and reflow on small screens instead of scrolling sideways.
• Pictures that carry meaning have a text alternative; drawings that are only decoration are hidden from screen readers.
• A mood has its name as well as its colour, and its colours can be changed.
• With Dogood Plus, dictation: say your day instead of typing it, in any language.
• Six languages, and each page tells screen readers which one it is in.

What is not there yet

• Pictures made to share (a page as an image, the year’s recap) and the flyers to print carry their words as an image; the same words are in the app or on the page.
• Books made to print are PDFs laid out for paper, not tagged for screen readers; the journal itself stays readable in the app.
• Dogood has not yet been reviewed by an outside auditor, nor tested at length with every screen reader.

Tell us

If something in Dogood is hard or impossible for you to use, write to [email protected] or through the contact form: the page or the screen, your device and, if you use one, your assistive technology. We answer within a few days, and fix what blocks someone first.