A site everyone can use.

Why this matters here

Many of the people who need this site most arrive under pressure: on an old phone, on a borrowed device, using a screen reader, or with only moments to spare. For us, accessibility is not a legal box to tick. If someone cannot use this site, they may not reach support. So we build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, and we treat anything that falls short as a problem to fix.

What we’ve built in

• Keyboard access everywhere. Every page works with a keyboard alone, including the Quick exit button: press Esc twice at any moment and this site is replaced with an ordinary weather page.
• Visible focus. As you move through a page with the Tab key, you can always see where you are.
• Readable colour contrast, checked on every page at both desktop and mobile sizes.
• Text that scales. Zoom to 200% and nothing breaks, overlaps or disappears.
• Respect for reduced motion. If your device asks websites not to animate, nothing here will move.
• Text alternatives. Images that carry meaning are described; decorative ones stay out of a screen reader’s way.
• Plain language. Short sentences, no jargon, and honesty about what we can and cannot do.
• Six translations. The language button offers Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Hindi and Gujarati. The translations are machine-generated by Google Translate, so their quality can vary.

How we test

Every page is scanned with axe-core, the same engine behind most professional accessibility audits, at desktop and mobile sizes. Our editors see accessibility checks on every page and post as they write, so new content is tested before it is published. We also test by hand: navigating with only a keyboard, zooming the text, and using a screen reader.

Where we fall short

Some parts of the experience run on services we don’t control: our donation pages are hosted by GoFundMe, our podcast and social media live on their own platforms, and translated pages depend on Google Translate. Those services have their own accessibility practices. If any of them stands in your way, email us and we will find you another route to the same thing.

Tell us what isn’t working

If anything on this site is hard to use, we want to know, whatever the reason. Email thejessicaproject@outlook.com and a real person will reply. Access problems get the same seriousness as anything else that could stand between a survivor and support.

Conformance

This website aims to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA.

This statement was prepared in August 2026 and is reviewed whenever the site changes.