Accessibility

Revised 10.30.26

The standard we follow

We build The LivingWordApp and this website to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA, the standard most governments and schools use for accessibility. For the app we apply it as the W3C advises for desktop software. In some places we go further than Level AA:

• Reading text is black on white, or as close to it as the design allows, at a contrast of at least 7 to 1 (WCAG Level AAA).
• Anything highlighted, such as the word you searched for, is shown in yellow and also in bold and underlined, so colour is never the only signal.
• Every part of the app can be reached and used with the keyboard alone.

If you feel that the accessibility is inadequate, please contact us at [email protected].

Where things stand

This page says plainly what is finished and what isn’t.

• Larger, high-contrast text: finished and tested.
• Keyboard: finished and tested on the Mac and on Windows.
• Screen readers: we have tested the whole app with VoiceOver on the Mac, and with NVDA and JAWS on Windows, and fixed every problem we found. We’re not screen-reader users ourselves, so the next step, testing by people who use one every day, is under way now. We’ll update this page when it’s done. Until then, please ask us before you buy. We’re glad to answer questions about your own setup.
• Maps: the Journeys maps are pictures. Everything on them is also in the list of places beside the map, which can be read and used with the keyboard.

Plugging in the drive

Which way up: The drive has a small slide button on one side. With a port that lies flat, hold the drive with the slide button facing up and push it in gently. If it won’t go in, don’t force it: turn it over and try again.

Then, on Windows, open the drive and start “Start TheLivingWordApp”. If a screen reader is running, it says “Starting The LivingWordApp. Please wait.” while the app loads. The file “Read me first” at the top of the drive explains the first steps.

This website

Every page has a “Skip to main content” link, a button at the top that switches between larger and standard text, and works with the keyboard. It follows your computer’s light or dark setting. Two applications come from other companies: the “Verify you are human” check (Cloudflare) and the checkout page (Stripe). We chose both partly because they support screen readers and keyboards, but we do not control them. If either gives you trouble, contact us and we will take your order by email.

On 30 October 2026 we checked every page of this website in light mode, dark mode, larger text and at phone width. All text met the Level AAA contrast of 7 to 1, every link, button and form field could be reached by keyboard with a visible focus outline, and every page fitted a phone screen without sideways scrolling. Automated checks can’t prove everything, so if you find a problem, please tell us.

In this section

• Larger, high-contrast text
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Using The LivingWordApp with a screen reader
• The user manual in an accessible format

Tell us about a problem

If anything in the app or on this website is hard to use, please tell us. Say what you were trying to do and what happened, and we will reply by email.

This statement was last reviewed on 30 October 2026.