Accessibility

Our aim

GaelOne™ aims to make its product usable by people with disabilities.

What the interface does today

• Keyboard navigation. Links, buttons, and form fields can be reached and used without a mouse.
• A skip link. The first thing the keyboard reaches on a page is a link straight to the main content, past the navigation.
• Visible focus states. A clear outline shows which control the keyboard is on.
• Semantic headings and landmarks, so screen readers can move through a page by structure.
• A declared page language, so a screen reader reads the page in the right voice.
• Readable contrast between text and background.
• Decisions that never depend on colour. ALLOW, ASK and STOP are each written as a word and drawn as a distinct shape, so the decision survives any palette, a grayscale printout, and colour vision that separates them differently.
• Reduced-motion support. When your system asks for less motion, animation is switched off.
• Responsive layouts that work down to a small phone without sideways scrolling.
• Text alternatives for meaningful images, and decorative graphics hidden from screen readers.

Display preferences

Every public page carries a small control in the bottom corner, labelled Accessibility preferences. It opens a panel where you can change how this site is displayed — text size, spacing, colour, motion, focus and control size — either by choosing a profile or by setting each one yourself. Your choices are kept in this browser and applied the next time you visit.

They are stored on your own device. Nothing is sent to us.

What the panel does

• Changes text size, line height, letter spacing and the space around the text.
• Offers a dark, a high-contrast and a monochrome palette.
• Raises secondary text to full strength.
• Turns off animation, whether or not your system already asks for that.
• Strengthens the focus outline and underlines links inside paragraphs.
• Sets a minimum size for buttons, fields and menus.
• Remembers all of that in this browser, and nowhere else.

What the panel does not do

• It does not add keyboard support, screen-reader support, labels, landmarks or focus management. Those are properties of the pages themselves, they are there with the panel never opened, and that is where the work belongs.
• It does not change what any control does. Display preferences reach presentation and navigation only — never an authorization, a payment detail, a decision or a price.
• It does not make this site conform to any standard, and nothing about it should be read as a conformance claim.
• It does not detect anything about you, and it never tries to. Choosing a preset is choosing how text is displayed; it is not a statement about your health, your abilities or your age, and this site does not treat it as one.

A panel like this one is a convenience. It is not accessibility, and it cannot make a page accessible that is not. The pages have to work for someone who never opens it — which is most people who need assistive technology, because they arrive with their own already configured.

Bring the launcher back

If you hid the accessibility control, this restores it. Your saved display settings are kept either way.

What we have not verified

We have not completed a formal accessibility audit, and we do not claim conformance to a specific WCAG level. The display preferences panel does not change that in either direction: it adds choices, it proves nothing, and no statement of conformance rests on it. We are working toward broad accessibility and welcome reports of barriers.

Tell us what is not working

If something blocks you, please write to us using the address below and describe what you were trying to do. Reports of specific barriers are the fastest way to get them fixed.