Accessibility Statement

Current status

This site is under active development and has not yet been through a formal conformance audit. The statement below describes what has been implemented and verified so far, not a certified level of compliance. It will be updated as the work continues.

Description of our services

On this site you can read about Ryse, the disciplines we work in, the areas we build in, how a project runs, and how to get in touch with us. The site is informational: it does not process payments and it has no account area.

How to use this site in an accessible way

The site is built against the four WCAG principles. What follows is what is in place today:

1. Perceivable

   To support how you take in the content:

   • Text colours are drawn from a fixed contrast scale rather than chosen per component, and text over photography sits on a gradient scrim so it does not depend on the image behind it.
   • Text can be enlarged with browser zoom without content being lost or cut off; type and spacing scale with the viewport.
   • Decorative images carry an empty alt attribute so assistive technology skips them instead of announcing filenames.
   • The page adapts to your operating system's light or dark preference where a section does not deliberately set its own.

2. Operable

   To support how you move through the site:

   • Every control is reachable and usable by keyboard, and focus is shown with a visible outline that is never removed.
   • The navigation drawer and dialogs close with the Escape key, and disclosure rows use native elements that announce their own expanded state.
   • The horizontal card rails can be moved with buttons as well as by dragging, so a pointer gesture is never the only way through.
   • If your system requests reduced motion, all animation — including smooth scrolling, parallax and scroll-driven effects — is switched off rather than merely shortened.
   • There is no flashing or strobing content.

3. Understandable

   To support how you make sense of the content:

   • Each page declares its language, and the language selector is a page of its own rather than a menu that disappears on blur.
   • Headings follow a real document outline, so screen readers can navigate by structure.
   • Interface labels are consistent across the site, and links describe where they lead.

4. Robust

   To support the technology you browse with:

   • The markup uses native HTML elements — buttons, links, lists, dialogs and disclosures — before reaching for ARIA.
   • Content is server-rendered, so it is present and readable before any JavaScript runs.
   • Where ARIA is used, it supplements the native semantics rather than replacing them.

Third-party content

This site loads a typeface from an external content delivery network, which will be replaced with a self-hosted file. Images that have not yet been produced are drawn locally as captioned grey plates rather than fetched from a stock service. We do not control the accessibility of third-party services we embed, and we will say so here whenever we add one.

Feedback and contact

If you hit a barrier on this site, please tell us — a short description of the page and what went wrong is enough, and it will be treated as a bug report.

help@rysellc.com