Accessibility

Funerals do not wait, and the person putting the program together may be doing it on a phone, at night, with tired eyes. This site is built to be usable by everyone, including people who rely on a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification or reduced motion. Our target is WCAG 2.2 Level AA, which is also the standard referenced under the ADA in the United States.

What that means in practice

• Every page and the whole editor work with a keyboard alone. Focus is always visible.
• Every form field has a label; errors are announced and say what to do.
• Text contrast meets AA on every page, including the small labels.
• Images that carry meaning have alternative text; decorative ones are hidden from screen readers.
• The page structure uses real headings and landmarks, so you can skip straight to the content.
• Animation on the home page and the logo stops if your device asks for reduced motion, and nothing flashes.
• Text can be zoomed to 200% and the layout still works. On a phone the editor becomes one column with a Preview button.
• The live preview is a picture of what will print; everything in it also exists as text in the form beside it, so nothing is available only visually.

How we test

Every build runs an automated accessibility audit (axe-core) across the public pages and the editor and fails if a violation is found, and the editor is exercised by keyboard in a real browser. Automated checks catch most problems but not all of them, so we also review changes by hand.

Known limits

The PDF files you download are print files: they are tagged with the document title and the text is real, selectable text, but they are laid out for paper rather than for screen readers. If you need an accessible digital version of a program, the Word download is the better starting point.

Tell us

If anything on this site is hard to use, contact us and say what happened and what you were using. We will fix what we can quickly and tell you what we did.