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title: "Accessibility — Palaestral"
description: "The standard Palaestral's pages are held to for anybody using a keyboard, a screen reader or a phone, and exactly how each page is checked against it."
canonical: "https://palaestral.com/accessibility"
---

# Accessibility.

The standard Palaestral's pages are held to, and exactly how each one is checked.

1. [The standard](https://palaestral.com/accessibility#the-standard)
2. [What is checked](https://palaestral.com/accessibility#what-is-checked)
3. [What the checks miss](https://palaestral.com/accessibility#what-the-checks-miss)

## The standard

Palaestral's pages are built to WCAG 2.2 at level AA: this site, the pages a client books and signs on, the console an instructor works in, and the instructor app.

## What is checked

These checks are part of the tests every change to Palaestral passes.

- Every page of this site is opened in a browser, in its light theme and its dark one, at a phone's width of 390 pixels and a desktop's of 1280, and checked by axe against WCAG 2.2 at level AA — the contrast of its text and the size of everything that can be pressed included. The menu a phone opens is checked open, too.
- Every page has one first-level heading and skips no level below it, starts with a link past the header to the page itself, and is laid out in landmarks a screen reader can move between.
- No style hides the outline that shows where the keyboard is.
- Every page fits a phone's screen with nothing scrolling sideways.
- The week on the front page moves only on a device that has not asked for less motion, and is shown still on one that has.
- Every page of the console and of booking, and every screen of the instructor app, is checked by axe in a test, which lays nothing out and so measures no contrast.

## What the checks miss

A check finds some problems and misses others. It cannot tell whether a sentence makes sense read aloud, or whether a whole booking can be made with a screen reader alone. If something on Palaestral is hard to use, write to [hello@palaestral.com](mailto:hello@palaestral.com) with what you were trying to do.

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