Accessibility
ORIA works to WCAG 2.1 Level AA on every public page. This site is partially conformant and is being actively remediated; no accessibility certification is claimed.
The standard this site works to
The measure is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, applied to every public page. It is the target the site is built and corrected against, not a badge it has been awarded.
Current status
Partially conformant, and actively remediating. Most of the standard is met; some of it is not yet met, and the gaps below are the ones currently known. This status rests on internal testing only — automated checks and keyboard review run against the built site — because no independent accessibility audit has been carried out. Stating a level ORIA has not verified would be the same failure this project refuses everywhere else.
What is in place
- Semantic headings, landmark regions, and a skip link on every page; the reading order follows the visual order.
- Every page can be operated from the keyboard alone, with a focus indicator that stays visible against both the light and the dark parts of the site.
- Status, warnings, and disclosures are carried as real text, never by colour alone.
- Motion — parallax, drifting imagery, the cinematic hero video — stops when your system asks for reduced motion.
- Pages are readable without JavaScript, on a slow connection, and in print with their status intact.
- Every image carries a text alternative, and decorative imagery is hidden from assistive technology rather than described.
Known gaps
- No independent accessibility audit has been carried out; nothing here has been confirmed by anyone outside the project.
- Decorative background motion has no on-page pause control. It is disabled by the reduced-motion system setting instead, which does not help a reader who cannot reach that setting.
- A plain-language glossary and pronunciation guidance are described in the content architecture and are not yet published.
- The site is published in English only; no translations exist in this phase.
Reporting a barrier
If something here is unusable for you, that is a fault worth fixing, and ORIA wants to know about it. Accessibility reports travel the same route as any other correction.
Be aware of what that page already states: there is no intake form, no address, and no promised response time, because no such system exists yet, and ORIA will not invite reports into a channel it cannot operate. What is committed is the correction policy itself — material faults are corrected visibly, superseded material is preserved rather than erased, and this page is updated as gaps are closed rather than quietly reworded.