Our Commitment
This Site is an archive of an evening, photographs and recap films kept so the people who were there, and those who wish they had been, can return to it. That intent only holds if everyone can reach the work. We are committed to making this Site usable by as wide an audience as we can, including visitors who navigate by keyboard, who rely on screen readers or other assistive technology, who need larger text, or who simply prefer a calmer, slower screen.
Accessibility here is treated as part of the craft, not a checklist bolted on at the end. We build with semantic HTML, we test the things we ship, and we would rather state plainly where we fall short than imply a perfection we have not earned.
Conformance Target
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. Those guidelines are the widely accepted standard for making web content perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust, and Level AA is the benchmark most often cited in law and best practice.
We want to be clear about what this is and what it is not. This is a goal we work toward and measure ourselves against, not a certification and not a guarantee that every page meets every criterion at every moment. Conformance is an ongoing effort. As we add galleries, films, and features, we hold the new material to the same target and revisit the older material as we are able.
Measures We Take
Most of the work of accessibility happens quietly, in the markup and the design decisions rather than in any single visible feature. The measures below are the ones we apply across the Site:
- Semantic structure. Pages are built from semantic HTML and landmark regions, a header, navigation, a main area, and a footer, so that assistive technology can announce the shape of a page and let you jump between its parts.
- Keyboard navigation. Every interactive element, links, buttons, the menu, the theme toggle, and the in-page contents, can be reached and operated with a keyboard alone, in a logical order, without a mouse or trackpad.
- Visible focus. The element you are currently on shows a clear focus state, so keyboard users never lose their place on the page.
- Sufficient contrast. Text and meaningful interface elements are checked for sufficient color contrast against their background in both the light and dark themes, so neither mode leaves text hard to read.
- Reduced motion. The Site honors the
prefers-reduced-motionsetting. When you have asked your system to reduce motion, animated transitions and the subtle entrance effects are turned off. - Descriptive text. Meaningful images carry descriptive alternative text, decorative images are hidden from assistive technology, and icon-only controls carry ARIA labels that say what they do.
- Readable type. We use generous line spacing, restrained line lengths, and type that scales with your browser settings, so the reading itself stays comfortable.
Media
This is an archive of pictures and films, so the accessibility of the media matters as much as the accessibility of the pages around it. Our intent is for every recap film to carry captions or, where captions are not enough on their own, surrounding context that conveys what is happening on screen, and for the photographs to be accompanied by meaningful descriptions rather than empty or generic labels.
We will be honest that this is partly in progress. Newer material is captioned and described as it is published. Some films and some older galleries do not yet have complete captions or full descriptions, and bringing them up to that standard is ongoing work. If a particular piece of media is a barrier for you, the Feedback page is the fastest way to tell us, and we will prioritize it.
Compatibility
The Site is designed to work with current versions of the major web browsers, including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge, on both desktop and mobile, and with the common assistive technologies that run alongside them, such as the screen readers built into the operating systems people already use.
It is also built to degrade gracefully. The core of the archive is content, structured, readable HTML, so the reading and the navigation hold up even where a particular browser does not support a newer visual effect. Some interactive community features rely on JavaScript to function; where they cannot run, the underlying pages remain readable.
If you use an older browser or a configuration we have not anticipated and something does not work as it should, we would like to know, so we can account for it.
Known Limitations
No honest accessibility statement claims to be finished, and this one does not. There are areas we know are not yet where we want them:
- Some older archival films may lack complete captions, and some older photographs may lack full descriptions. We are working through this material over time.
- Films and previews embedded from third-party platforms, such as YouTube, are presented through those platforms' own players, whose accessibility we do not fully control.
- A few community features depend on JavaScript and cannot be used with it disabled, though the surrounding content remains readable.
We list these not to excuse them but to be straight with you about where the work stands. They are on our list, and we close them as we are able.
Feedback
If you run into a barrier anywhere on this Site, a page you cannot navigate, media you cannot follow, text you cannot read, please tell us. Reports from the people actually using the Site are the single most useful thing we receive, and they shape what we fix first.
The best way to reach us is through the on-site Feedback page. It helps if you can tell us the page you were on, the browser or assistive technology you were using, and what you expected to happen, but even a short note that something did not work is genuinely welcome. We read every accessibility report and treat them as a priority.
Ongoing Efforts & Changes
Accessibility is not a state we reach once and leave behind. We review the Site over time, fold accessibility into how we build new galleries, films, and features, and revisit older material as we are able. When we improve something meaningful, or when we learn we have fallen short somewhere, this statement is where we record it.
The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision to this statement. We encourage you to revisit it now and then, both to see where the work has moved and to hold us to it.