Accessibility

Conformance

Partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 AA. Partially, because the gaps below are real and are listed rather than left out.

What has been measured

• Contrast. Every text colour clears 4.5:1 against every surface on the site — the four panel greys and the page ground. The narrowest pair measures 4.52:1. The surface ramp was lifted twice for readability, and each lift costs contrast for everything drawn on it — so two greys and the loss red were raised in lightness to hold the line, and all ten text colours were re-measured against all four surfaces afterwards rather than assumed to still pass. The background starfield is measured separately, below, because it lights the ground rather than being one.
• Keyboard. Everything interactive is reachable by keyboard and shows a visible focus ring. A skip link is the first stop in the tab order.
• The starfield. The background is a field of diamond-shaped stars, and the heading, lede and footer of each view are drawn straight onto it rather than onto a panel. The field is dimmed to the point where that costs nothing measurable: peak opacity is 0.125, a star on open ground lands around rgb(41,45,52), and the narrowest text-over-star pair on the site measures 4.66:1 — checked on rendered pixels, at the top of the page and at the footer, on every view. An earlier, brighter field took that pair to 1.2:1; the stars were made larger and quieter rather than left bright with a note attached.
• Navigation. Moving between pages moves focus to the new page and updates the title, so the change is announced rather than silent.
• Charts. Each carries a single description stating its finding — what the chart shows you — rather than describing its shapes. Decorative artwork is hidden from assistive technology entirely.
• Motion. If your system asks for reduced motion, the decorative animation stops. The spinner does not, because it is how the page tells you it is working.
• Errors. Validation messages are announced, mark the field they refer to, and reserve their space so nothing moves under your pointer as they appear.
• Nothing fake. The locked Stargazer ledger is hidden from screen readers rather than read out as a table you cannot reach, and the unavailable membership button announces as unavailable.

Known limitations

• The site has not been tested with a real screen reader. Everything above was verified by inspection and by keyboard. Until a VoiceOver or NVDA pass happens, correct announcement is an intention rather than a result.
• There is no automated accessibility check in the build, so a regression would not be caught mechanically.
• The section tabs are not a complete ARIA tab pattern. Tab and Enter work; arrow-key movement between tabs does not.
• Touch target sizes have now been measured at 320, 375, 390 and 430 pixels wide. The week-number buttons were named here as the likely smallest and are not: they measure 30×29 and pass. What failed was the agent's Ask button, which sized itself against the input beside it and collapsed to 20 pixels tall once the two stacked on a phone; it is 44 now. What remains under 24 pixels is a checkbox inside a 40-pixel label that is itself the target, a hidden native select that exists for assistive technology while a visible button carries the interaction, and two text-styled controls inside prose, which WCAG 2.2 exempts.
• Layout is verified at five widths — 320, 375, 390, 430 and desktop — but not at 200% and 400% browser zoom, which is a different test and has not been run.

Telling us something is wrong

If part of this site is unusable for you, that is a bug. Report it to contact@garyqin.com and say what you were trying to do and what your assistive technology did instead — the second half is the part that makes it fixable.

Last reviewed 25 August 2026, against WCAG 2.2 AA.