Accessibility Statement

This site

The K companion site is built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA targets. The following are intentional design decisions in service of that target:

• Keyboard navigation. Every link, button, deck-embed control, and exercise step is operable from a keyboard. Skip-to-content patterns are present on each page’s main landmark.
• Visible focus. Focus rings on links and buttons use the brand-yellow color against the dark background; in light mode they use blue-deep. Custom focus styles inherit from a single :focus-visible rule set in src/styles/global.css.
• Color contrast. Primary text on the dark background meets WCAG AA (4.5:1) for body text. The yellow on blue-deep used for headings exceeds 7:1. Brand color choices are documented in the Oranburg Design System.
• Reduced motion. The site respects prefers-reduced-motion: reduce. Animations and transitions degrade to instantaneous state changes when the system pref is set.
• Screen reader. Semantic HTML throughout. Decorative images are marked alt="". The painterly hero scenes carry meaningful alt text. The slide-deck iframe is labeled with the deck title.
• Self-hosted fonts. Brand fonts ship from public/fonts/ with font-display: swap, so the page is readable even before the brand font loads.
• Mobile. The nav collapses to a hamburger below 768px. Tables that don’t fit overflow with horizontal scroll rather than collapsing illegibly.

The exercises

The 35 interactive Middle-earth exercises in public/exercises/ use several step types (multiple choice, drag-drop, ranking, redline). The drag-drop step type currently uses HTML5 native drag, which lacks a keyboard-only fallback. A keyboard-equivalent “Assign by click” mode is planned and tracked as an open accessibility gap (see the decisions-needed digest in the planning materials).

The slide decks

Slide decks are HTML pages embedded in an iframe on each class page. They are visually scaled for a 110-minute classroom (large type, high contrast). Speaker notes are embedded in the deck source and are not the canonical text for the doctrine; the canonical text lives in the casebook and on the chapter and rule pages.

The PDFs

The five sample exam materials on the Syllabus are PDFs. The professor will provide alternative-format versions (text-only, large print, screen-reader-friendly OCR) on request through DSS or directly. Email the professor.

Accommodations

If anything on this site is not accessible to you, or if you require accommodation for any course component, please see the Accommodations policy. Reporting a barrier is welcome and is treated as useful feedback, not as a complaint.

How to report a barrier

Email the professor with the URL of the page, the device and assistive technology you were using, and a brief description of what did not work. The professor will respond within two business days and will work with the K site author (the LawJ project) to fix the underlying issue. The K site is open source; fixes ship as PRs.