Accessibility

We want Taste of Tea to work for everyone, including people who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, or need larger text. This page says what we have done, what we know is not finished, and how to reach us if something gets in your way.

Settings you can change yourself

The Accessibility button at the bottom of every page opens a panel. Your choices apply on this device only and stay in place from page to page and on your next visit.

Profiles. One tap turns on a set of settings made for a need: Reader, Blind users, Seizure safe, ADHD friendly, Cognitive, Visually impaired, Motor impaired, Elderly users and Color blind. You can then adjust any single setting.

  • Text and readability: larger text in three steps, a dyslexia-friendly font, line and letter spacing, bolder text, text alignment, a reading guide and a reading mask, highlighted links and headings, and a dictionary for any word you select.
  • Color and contrast: dark, light or high contrast, lower or higher saturation, monochrome, warm, cool or sepia filters, inverted colors, and filters for eight types of color blindness.
  • Navigation and focus: a large cursor, a text magnifier, read-aloud, a short summary of the page, the page's headings and regions as a list, an on-screen keyboard, keyboard navigation, voice navigation and dictation.
  • Media and motion: mute sound, stop animations, hide images or videos.

The panel is available in English, Spanish, German, French and Japanese. With keyboard shortcuts switched on, Alt + A opens it from anywhere.

What leaves your browser. Your settings are stored in your browser and are not sent to us. When you look up a word, the word is sent to a free public dictionary service (dictionaryapi.dev) to fetch its meaning. The dyslexia-friendly font is loaded from a public font library. Voice navigation and dictation use your browser's own speech recognition, which may process audio through your browser's provider. A message you send with "Report a problem" comes to us through our contact form.

What we have checked

Keyboard. The accessibility panel can be opened, used and closed with the keyboard alone, and Escape closes it. Every page starts with a "Skip to content" link.

Text contrast. Small print in the site footer was darkened to meet the WCAG 2.2 AA threshold of 4.5:1.

Motion. The panel above can stop animations and transitions on any page, and the Seizure safe profile also lowers color saturation.

What we have not finished

We have not completed a full WCAG 2.2 audit of every page and every product, and we do not claim conformance we have not tested. Known gaps we are working through:

  • Many product photos come from the tea brands we carry, and some have missing or unhelpful alternative text. We are rewriting these.
  • Checkout is provided by Shopify, and we cannot change it directly.
  • Third-party content, such as the chat window, reviews and payment widgets, may not meet the same standard as the rest of the site.

An accessibility panel like the one above changes how the site looks for you. It does not repair the page underneath it, and we do not present it as a substitute for building the site properly.

If something does not work

Use Report a problem at the bottom of the accessibility panel, or contact us and tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened. If you tell us the browser and any assistive software you use, we can reproduce it faster. We answer accessibility reports first.

If you cannot complete an order because of a barrier on this site, contact us and we will help you place it.