Accessibility
Your site works for people who use a keyboard, a screen reader, or larger text, with nothing to turn on.
A site everyone can use
People reach your site in different ways. Some use a keyboard instead of a mouse. Some listen with a screen reader. Some enlarge the text, or read on a small phone in bright sunlight. Cardel builds every page it provides so all of them can read your work, sign up, buy, and book. There's nothing to turn on and no plugin to add.
Built to a recognized standard
Cardel builds to WCAG 2.2 AA, the accessibility level most public websites aim for. It covers your public pages and everything you use to run your site: Admin, Editor Mode, and Guided Mode. It's there from the day you create your site, not after a redesign.
Before each update ships, Cardel runs automated accessibility checks, from your posts and newsletter sign-up to Messaging Center, Audience, Theme, and Brand in Admin.
What your readers get
Keyboard users can skip past the header straight to your content, and they can always see where they are on the page. Every button, link, and form field has a name a screen reader can announce. Text and controls keep readable contrast in both light and dark themes. Buttons are large enough to tap comfortably, and nothing important works only when you hover over it.
When something goes wrong in a form, the problem is explained in words, not only with a red outline. When a save or a send is in progress, the button says so. People who turn on reduced motion in their device settings get less movement on the page.
What you and your Admins get
The same standard applies behind the scenes. You, and anyone you invite to your site as admins, can write posts, answer messages, manage your audience, and change your theme with a keyboard or a screen reader. Each confirmation dialog keeps focus inside the choice, closes with escape, and returns you to where you were.
Your part
Cardel builds the structure. You bring the craft through your content and configured website, in way that is easy to understand. Use headings in your posts in order. Write link text that says where the link goes. Put important details, like dates and prices, in words on the page rather than only inside an image. Turn on captions for your videos on YouTube. The built-in themes are designed to keep text readable, so starting from one of them is the easiest way to keep contrast strong.
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How it works
A reader or an Admin opens a page.
They can skip to the content, see where they are, and hear every label.
Forms explain problems in words, and buttons show when work is in progress.
You keep publishing as usual. There's no accessibility setting to go looking for.
A few things worth knowing
A few pieces come from other companies: the controls inside a YouTube player, Google's sign-in window, and the inner workings of the text editor you write posts in. Cardel can't change those, but everything around them is built to the same standard. If something on your site is hard to use with a keyboard or a screen reader, let us know. That's a bug to fix, not a setting you missed.
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