Accessibility Statement
What is in place, what is not, and how to tell me when something gets in your way.
ScreenTail aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. It has not been formally audited, so this page does not claim that it does. It says what has been done, where the limits are, and how to report a barrier so it can be fixed.
01What is in place
- Keyboard. Every page can be used without a mouse. A "Skip to content" link comes first, and the element you are on is always outlined. Full-screen tools close with Esc.
- Contrast. The site's text colors (headings, body text, secondary text and links) were measured against their backgrounds in both themes, and each meets at least 4.5:1, the WCAG level AA figure for normal text.
- Light and dark. Pages follow your system's light or dark setting, and a button switches between them.
- Reduced motion. If your system asks for reduced motion, moving screens show a still picture instead, and nothing starts moving until you press Start.
- Sound. No sound plays until you press a button, and it stops when you leave the page.
- Flashing. No tool on the site flashes. Every moving tool is checked for sudden changes of brightness before it is published.
- Zoom and small screens. Pages can be zoomed, and they are checked at widths from a wide desktop down to a phone so that nothing spills off the side.
- Structure. Each page has one main heading, headings in order, the page language set to English, and text alternatives for images.
The automated checks behind these points are described on How We Test. The site has also been checked by hand on a phone, a laptop and a 4K monitor.
02Known limits
- Many tools are visual by nature. A full-screen color, a test pattern or a screensaver is something you look at. A screen reader announces the page and its controls, but the tool itself is what appears on the screen.
- Drawings are described briefly. Screensavers, prank screens and wallpaper previews are drawn by the browser. They have a short text label, not a detailed description of what is shown.
- Some tests depend on judging color or light. They show a field; your eyes do the judging, and the page says so.
- No formal audit yet. The checks above were made on the site's own pages. They are not a certification by an independent accessibility tester.
03Report a barrier
If something on ScreenTail is hard or impossible to use, write to contact@screentail.com with the page's address and what happened. Say which browser and device you were using, and any assistive technology, such as a screen reader or voice control. The same person who builds the site reads every message.
The contact page has the other ways to describe a problem.