Accessibility statement

1. Our commitment

We want everyone to be able to use phonique.com and the Phonique app, including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard instead of a mouse or a pointer, larger text or more contrast.

This statement covers the website at phonique.com and the Phonique app for Mac, iPad and iPhone. It says how each works with assistive technology, what does not work well yet, and how to tell us when something does not work for you.

2. The website

We build phonique.com to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, at level AA. In practice:

• Every page starts with a link that skips straight to its main content.
• Every page has one main heading, and its parts are marked as regions a screen reader can jump between.
• Every picture that tells you something has a text description.
• Text stands out from its background by at least the contrast WCAG asks for.
• Pictures that move stop by themselves, and stay still if you ask your device to reduce motion.
• The website follows your device’s light or dark appearance.
• Every page can be read with JavaScript turned off.

3. The Phonique app

Phonique is not on the App Store yet. We are building it to work with these accessibility features of the Mac, iPad and iPhone:

• VoiceOver, on the canvas too: you can hear and change every node and every cable, and move between them with the rotor.
• Full keyboard control on the Mac and iPad.
• Larger Text, through Dynamic Type.
• Increase Contrast, with colours chosen for it.
• Colour is never the only way to tell things apart: every node also has an icon and a name.
• Reduce Motion: the dots on the cables stop, and meters change in place.

Before the app is released, we test it with each of these features on every device it runs on, and this statement will then say what does not work yet.

4. What does not work well yet

Our checks are automatic, and automatic checks cannot find every problem. Nobody outside nthState has audited the website or the app.

5. How we check

We check the website with automatic tools. The checks cover every page at desktop and phone widths.

• The checks currently run in Chrome’s browser engine. Checks for Safari and Firefox are configured, but have not yet run.
• axe, an accessibility checker, looks for problems on every page against WCAG 2.2 at levels A and AA, and the check fails if it finds one.
• Lighthouse, Google’s page checker, scores every page for accessibility, and the check fails below 95 out of 100.

Phonique’s colours are checked for contrast as a set, in light and dark and with Increase Contrast, whenever one of them changes.

6. Tell us what does not work

If something on the website or in the app does not work for you, email contact@phonique.com. Tell us what you were trying to do, where, and the device and any assistive technology you use. We reply within two working days.

7. Changes to this statement

We update this statement when the website or the app changes in a way that affects it, and review it at least once a year. The date at the top says when it last changed.