Accessibility

• Every page has one heading that names it, headings in order, and landmarks for the header, navigation, main content and footer. A skip link is the first thing the keyboard reaches.
• Everything works with a keyboard alone: menus open and close with Enter and Escape and return focus to where you were; the mobile menu keeps focus inside it until you close it; focus is always visible.
• Text and its background meet at least 4.5:1 contrast everywhere, including links, labels and badges. Body text is never smaller than 16 px on a phone and scales with your browser settings; the page still works at 400 % zoom without sideways scrolling.
• Every cover and portrait has a text alternative that names the book or the person. Purely decorative images are hidden from assistive technology.
• Nothing moves on its own. There are no carousels that advance, no animations that loop, and the few hover transitions are switched off when your system asks for reduced motion.
• Search and the catalogue filters are ordinary forms that work with JavaScript turned off.

Automated checks (axe-core, WCAG 2.2 AA rules) run on every template on desktop and mobile viewports as part of the build, and a keyboard-only walkthrough of the navigation is part of the same test suite. A release that fails either does not ship.

Book covers are images of text by nature; the title and author are always repeated as real text beside them. Purchase links go to Amazon, whose pages we do not control.

If anything on this site is hard to use, write to contact@readnovastory.com and say which page and what happened. We fix accessibility problems ahead of other work.