Built so everyone in the room can use it.
Keyboard, screen reader, captions, color and contrast, motion — handled on the first screen and every screen after it. Not to earn a badge. Because it's the work, and it's the right way to do it.
Day-to-day, here's what we do.
Keyboard
Every action works from the keyboard. You can always see where you are. The order you tab through matches the order you'd read. Nowhere to get stuck.
Screen reader
Tested with the screen readers people actually use, every release. When something changes on screen, it's announced. We lean on plain, correct markup over clever tricks.
Color & contrast
Text is easy to read against its background. Color is never the only signal — every change carries an icon and words too, so it works whether or not you see color the same way.
Captions
On by default whenever there's audio. Our explainer videos carry captions and an ASL version. Audio inside the product is captioned as it happens.
ASL
Where a page explains how something works, there's an ASL version. Glossary terms come with an ASL video — many of them signed by Fallon herself.
Motion
If your device asks for less motion, the site listens and the animations turn off. We check it every release.
This is the marketing site today. The app comes next.
Right now what's public is this site, and it's built to the same bar we hold the product to. The app comes online with our first agencies later this year, and we'll keep this page current as it does — including the things still on our list and when we expect to have them fixed. If you hit something that doesn't work, that's a bug to us, the same as any other.
Found something? Email accessibility@madeby1891.com and a person will read it.
The promises behind it.
- Access is in everything we make, for everyone, at no extra charge. Charging for it would be backwards.
- When a page explains how the product works, it comes with ASL and captions.
- Tell us something isn't working and you'll hear back from a person within two business days, with a real fix date soon after.
- An access problem blocks a release the same as any other bug — because it is one.
- We don't auto-caption sign language. Getting that right is a research problem, not something to fake. We do caption spoken English, live.