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Winography

Accessibility

Last updated: 25 July 2026

Winography is built to be usable with a keyboard, a screen reader, and reduced-motion settings, and accessibility is treated as part of the work rather than an afterthought. This page describes what the site does today and, just as importantly, where it still falls short. If something here gets in your way, please say so — the contact details are at the bottom.

What works today

Keyboard. The site can be operated without a mouse. Navigation menus, the search palette, quiz controls, toggles, and dropdowns are built from real buttons, links, and form controls, and can be reached and used with Tab, arrow keys, Enter, and Escape. A "skip to content" link is the first thing you reach on every page. Menus close on Escape and return focus to where you were.

Screen readers. Pages use proper landmark structure — header, navigation, main content, and footer are all marked up as such — and headings are used to describe the page. Flags and meaningful images carry text descriptions; purely decorative images are hidden from assistive technology so they don't add noise. The search palette announces its options as you move through them.

Reduced motion. If your system is set to reduce motion, Winography honors it. The animated hero on the home page renders as a still image, and the animated heroes elsewhere on the site stop their self-running motion. Card carousels and other timed animations don't autoplay under this setting. Nothing on the site moves on its own if you've asked it not to.

Color. Where the site uses color to convey meaning — on maps, charts, and the interactive globe — it pairs that color with a text label or legend, so the meaning doesn't depend on being able to distinguish the colors.

Sound. The only audio on the site is grape-name pronunciation, and it plays only when you press its button. Nothing plays automatically.

Where it falls short

Being honest about the gaps matters more than a clean-looking page:

  • Charts convey their shape, not their numbers. The data visualizations announce themselves to a screen reader as, for example, a bar chart of a grape's data, but they don't yet expose the underlying values as text or a data table. A screen-reader user can tell a chart is present and what it's about, but not read the figures from it. Making the numbers directly available is planned.
  • Focus outlines aren't uniform. Every interactive element shows a visible focus indicator when you Tab to it, but the exact style varies between components, and a couple of older dropdowns use an indicator that doesn't match the site's theme. It's always visible; it's not always consistent.
  • One dialog doesn't manage focus fully. The share panel can be closed with Escape and has a labeled close button, but it doesn't yet trap focus inside itself or return focus cleanly when it closes. The main search palette does handle this correctly.
  • The red/white grape color family on charts. Most color coding has a text backup, but the specific distinction between red-grape and white-grape hues on some charts currently relies on color alone, without a shape or label to reinforce it.

Standards

Winography aims at the spirit of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. It hasn't been formally audited against them, and the gaps above mean it isn't fully conformant today. The statement here reflects the actual state of the site rather than a certification.

Feedback

Accessibility work is ongoing, and reports from people who actually use assistive technology are the most useful kind. If you hit a barrier — anything from a chart you can't read to a control you can't reach — please get in touch with Glenn McClanan through glennmcclanan.com, describing the problem and the page it's on. It'll be taken seriously.