Accessibility
The four controls that are first class, the contrast floor, and what is not claimed.
Four accessibility controls ship in the product, are user-controllable, and are treated as first class — meaning future work is not permitted to regress them.
- High contrast
- Stronger text and border contrast throughout.
- Reduce transparency
- Opaque surfaces, with no blur behind bars and panels.
- Reduce motion
- Transitions drop to an opacity step and decorative animation stops on a static frame. The operating system’s own preference is honoured as well as the in-product one.
- Always show focus
- Keyboard focus outlines stay visible at all times rather than only after keyboard interaction.
Contrast floor
Body and placeholder text are held at a minimum of 4.5:1 against their background, and large text at 3:1. A one-pixel rule is never the only thing carrying a meaning; it is paired with a label, a weight change, or a background step.
Motion
Every result the product produces arrives with motion reduced, rather than being absent. That distinction is the whole rule: an animation may be how something arrives, and may never be whether it arrives. Interactive surfaces are completable by keyboard alone, and a change of state is announced rather than being carried only by the animation that accompanied it.