Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to use Heathen Heritage, including people who are blind or have low vision and people who use a keyboard instead of a mouse. We work toward the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA.

The Site partially conforms to that standard: most of it works, and the parts that do not yet are listed under “Known limitations” below.

• Keyboard: the menus, dialogs and readings can be used with the keyboard. A “Skip to content” link comes first, the focus is always visible, and Esc closes menus and dialogs.
• Screen readers: fields have labels, dialogs are announced with their titles, and error messages are read out when they appear.
• Readings: everything a reading shows on the cloth or the board is also written out in the reading panel. When you turn a card or move between positions, a screen reader hears a short line such as “2 · Obstacle: Three of Swords, reversed” instead of the whole panel again. The cards can be read one by one or all together.
• Tangle of Wyrd: besides choosing cards by hand on the table, you can choose them by number from the keyboard. Every card is face down and shuffled, so a number is as blind a choice as a hand.
• Text size and zoom: the Site follows the text size set in your browser, and you can zoom it with your browser.
• Motion: if your device is set to reduce motion, cards are dealt and turned without animation.
• Colour: text on our public pages is checked against the WCAG contrast minimums.

• Card pictures are not described image by image. Each card’s name, position, whether it is reversed, and its meaning are always given in text.
• The boards, the zodiac wheel and the rune cloth are pictures. They are hidden from screen readers because the reading panel carries the same information.
• Choosing Tangle of Wyrd cards by hand needs a mouse or a touch screen; use “choose by number” instead.
• Services run by other companies follow their own accessibility: the human check on sign-up (Cloudflare Turnstile), payment (Stripe) and booking a One-On-One session (Cal.com).
• Screen-reader testing is still in progress. We test with the keyboard and automated tools, and some pages for members and staff have not yet been tried with every screen reader.
• The staff’s administration pages are not covered by this statement.

If something on the Site does not work for you, or you need a reading or other content in another way, email [email protected]. It helps to tell us:

• the page’s address,
• what you were trying to do,
• and, if you like, the browser and any assistive technology you use (for example a screen reader or magnifier).

We read every message and will reply as soon as we can. If a problem stops you from using a reading you have paid for, tell us and we will help you directly.

The Site is made with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA, and needs JavaScript to draw readings. It works in current versions of the major browsers.

This statement is based on our own review in October 2026: automated checks with the axe accessibility engine on our public pages, testing each reading by keyboard, and a review of the Site’s code. We update it when the Site changes.