Accessibility

• Colour was chosen for contrast, not just for looks. The two brightest colours in the palette are used as backgrounds only, never as text, because they do not carry enough contrast at text size. Warm body text uses a deeper tone that does.
• Keyboard focus is always visible, and deliberately uses two different colours — one for the light sections and one for the dark. No single colour in the palette stands out clearly enough against both, so using one everywhere would have left the outline nearly invisible on half the page.
• Animation gets out of the way. If your system is set to reduce motion, transitions and movement collapse to nothing.
• Decoration is hidden from screen readers. The large circles and ornaments carry no meaning, so they are marked to be skipped rather than announced.
• The site works without JavaScript.If the enquiry form cannot run, the page still shows Diana’s email address and says so — reaching her never depends on a script loading.
• Form fields have real labels, and errors are announced rather than only shown, so a screen reader hears what went wrong instead of silence.
• Failure messages say what to do. When something is refused, the message names the actual reason and offers a path that works, rather than a generic apology.

This site has not been through a formal third-party accessibility audit, so there is no certificate to point at and no claim here that it fully conforms to a published standard. What is described above is what was deliberately built, tested by hand, and can be checked in the source.

WCAG 2.2 AA is the target being worked toward. Treating that as achieved without an audit would be a promise nobody has earned yet.

• Photographs uploaded in Apple’s HEIC format are refused rather than converted, because most browsers cannot display them. The refusal explains what to change, but it is still a refusal.
• No formal testing has been done with every combination of screen reader and browser. If yours behaves badly, that is worth telling us — it is the fastest way this list gets shorter.

Email diana@knowyourworthbooks.com. Describing what you were trying to do, and what happened instead, helps most — but a one-line “this page is unusable” is a perfectly good message and will get a reply.

Accessibility problems are treated as faults, not requests. If something stops you using this site, that is a bug on our side.