Accessibility

Maps are for everyone, and so is the tooling around them. We build eudicot.org against WCAG 2.1 Level AA and treat accessibility as part of the product, not a checkbox.

Every page of this site passes automated WCAG 2.1 A and AA checks (axe-core), signed in and out. In practice that means semantic HTML with proper landmarks and headings, labeled form fields, keyboard navigable menus and forms, text contrast at or above 4.5:1, and respect for reduced-motion preferences: animations and autoplaying video stand down when your system asks them to.

Automated checks catch a lot but not everything. We also review new pages by keyboard as we ship them, and screen reader passes are part of our ongoing work rather than a finished claim.

• The interactive map demo on the homepage is primarily pointer-driven. The same classifications it shows are presented as text in its legend.
• The Eudicot desktop application is a professional GIS under heavy development; its accessibility work is ongoing and not yet at the same bar as this site.

If anything here is hard to use with assistive technology, we want to know and we will fix it. Write to us through the contact page; messages go straight to the founders and we usually reply within a day.