Accessibility Statement

Our commitment

GENESIS 98 LLC is committed to making this website usable by everyone, including people who browse with a screen reader, by keyboard alone, at a large text size, with a switch or a magnifier, or with reduced motion. We treat that as part of building a page, not as a compliance exercise run afterwards.

The standard

We hold this site to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That is the current published standard from the W3C, and it is one level above WCAG 2.1 Level AA, which is what the Department of Justice’s ADA rule names and what most enforcement and litigation still references. Meeting 2.2 means meeting 2.1, so we build to the newer one.

What has been measured

• Contrast. Every text colour on the site was measured against the background it actually sits on, not against white. Body text on the light ground measures 14.4:1, the quieter greys 5.6:1 and 5.7:1, and link colours 5.0:1 on light and 5.1:1 on dark. The minimum AA asks for is 4.5:1. Form field borders are held to the separate 3:1 requirement for identifying a control.
• Target size. Buttons, links in the footer and form controls are at least 44×44 CSS pixels. Above the 24×24 minimum WCAG 2.2 introduced, and at the size a thumb actually needs.
• Motion. The opening animation is skipped entirely for anyone whose system asks for reduced motion. It does not degrade, it does not run faster. It does not run.
• Keyboard. Everything you can do with a mouse can be done with a keyboard, in a visible focus order. The cookie notice never traps focus and never steals it on arrival.
• Structure and forms. Real headings in order, one h1 per page, labelled form fields, and status and error messages announced to a screen reader rather than shown only in colour.
• Zoom and reflow. The site reflows to a phone-width viewport without horizontal scrolling, and text scales with the browser’s own text size.

What has not been done

We have not commissioned an independent third-party audit of this site, and we have not run a full manual test with screen reader users. So we are not claiming certified conformance. We are telling you the standard we build to and what we have checked ourselves. Anyone claiming full WCAG conformance without a test involving actual assistive technology users is guessing, and we would rather be accurate than impressive.

Known limitations

• The opening sequence on the home page is decorative and animated. It is skipped under reduced-motion settings, and the page content is complete and readable without it, but on a slow connection it may briefly delay the first thing you see.
• Some content on the site is set in a display serif at large sizes. It meets contrast requirements, but if it is hard for you to read, increasing your browser’s text size will scale it.

Tell us if something does not work

This is the part that matters more than the rest of the page. If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, tell us and we will fix it, and if the fix takes time, we will get you the information another way in the meantime.

This is not finished

Accessibility is not a state a website arrives at. Standards move, the site changes, and browsers and assistive technology change under both. We review this statement and the site behind it whenever we make a substantial change to the site, and at least once a year. The date at the top of this page is when it was last reviewed, not when it was first written.

How we build

Accessibility is checked as part of building a page here, not audited afterwards as a separate exercise: contrast is measured when a colour is chosen, target sizes are set in the design system rather than per button, and a component that only works on hover is treated as broken, because there is no hover on a phone.