Last updated: August 17, 2026

1. Our commitment

We want everybody to be able to read this site, including people who use a screen reader, who navigate with a keyboard, who need larger text, or who cannot use a mouse.

We are not going to claim we are there. Accessibility on a site with 20 years of inherited content is a job in progress, and the useful thing we can offer is an honest account of what works, what does not, and how to get help when something is in your way.

2. Why this sits with our legal pages

Our privacy policy, our terms and our cookie policy only mean something if you can actually read them. Consent you could not read is not consent. So the legal pages are the ones we hold to the highest standard here: plain headings in order, real text rather than pictures of text, tables that make sense read aloud, and no pop up standing between you and the words.

3. What standard we are aiming at

We target the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA.

We are partially conformant, which means parts of the site meet the standard and parts do not. We have not had an independent audit and we are not going to describe an internal opinion as a certification.

4. We do not use an accessibility overlay

You will not find a floating accessibility button on this site that promises to fix everything.

Those tools are widely reported to fail on complex pages and to interfere with the screen reader or keyboard setup you have already configured to work the way you need. We would rather fix the markup. It is slower and it is the thing that actually helps.

5. What works today

Things we have specifically built or checked:

  • The wish list dashboard uses standard form controls with real labels. Text inputs, checkboxes and buttons, not custom widgets that a screen reader cannot name.
  • Wish list pages have a plain view. There is a toggle that switches a list to a simpler, plainer rendering, and your choice is remembered. It was built for readability and it helps here too.
  • Wish list pages carry no advertising, so there is nothing shifting the layout under you while you read.
  • Wish list pages print properly. The print stylesheet strips the affiliate URLs and prints the plain page address instead, which matters if you are handing a list to somebody on paper.
  • The site declares its language, so screen readers pronounce it correctly.
  • Headings are structured in our recent articles and in every page of this legal suite.
  • Fonts are served from our own server, so text renders without waiting on a third party.
  • Text reflows on a phone and when you zoom in, without a horizontal scrollbar.
  • Nothing on this site plays audio automatically, and nothing flashes at a rate associated with seizures.

6. Known limitations, named

The list we would want to read if we were you.

  1. Inherited articles. Most of this site was written before the current era, and older articles have inconsistent heading order and images with missing or unhelpful alternative text. We are fixing these as we rewrite each article, and rewriting is happening steadily rather than all at once.
  2. Advertising. We show Google automatic ads on articles. We do not control their markup, their focus behaviour or their contrast, and an ad that loads late can move the page under you. This is the largest single accessibility problem on the site and it is one we did not build.
  3. Third party embeds. YouTube players and any tag loaded through our tag manager come with their own markup, which we do not control.
  4. Theme markup. The site runs on a commercial WordPress theme. Some of its structural markup and colour contrast are not ours to change without rebuilding, and where we have overridden it we have done so in our child theme.
  5. Comparison tables. Some of our older comparison and list pages use wide tables that are hard work in a screen reader and awkward on a phone. New tables are being built simpler.
  6. Animated images. Some comparison pages carry looping animated images that cannot be paused. We are aware this is a WCAG failure for moving content and we are replacing them as those pages are rewritten.
  7. Video captions. Videos we embed are other people's, and their captions are whatever the creator supplied.
  8. User created content. Wish list titles, display names and notes are written by users, and we cannot guarantee that somebody else's note is clearly worded.
  9. No independent audit. Nobody outside this site has tested it.

7. How we assess it

Today: our own review, plus automated checking. That is all. There has been no manual expert audit and no testing with people who use assistive technology day to day. Anything on this page is therefore our own reading of our own work, which is the weakest form of evidence, and we would rather say so than dress it up.

What we intend, in order: an automated pass across the whole site, a manual keyboard and screen reader pass over the wish list flow and the legal pages first because those are the ones with consequences, then the article library as it is rewritten.

8. Compatibility

The site is built to work with current versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge on desktop and mobile, with the screen readers commonly paired with each. Very old browsers may not render it correctly.

Technically, accessibility here relies on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA working with your browser and assistive technology.

9. If something blocks you, tell us and we will help

Write to info@nerfguns.net. It helps if you can include the address of the page and a sentence about what happened, but if all you can manage is "I cannot use the wish list", send that and we will work it out.

Postal address: 4001 S Pine St, #110542, Tacoma, WA 98411-9994

What we commit to:

  • We reply within 2 business days to say we have it.
  • We give you a substantive answer within 10 business days, even if the answer is that a fix will take longer.
  • While a fix is pending, we will get you the information another way. If a page will not work for you, we will read it to you, email you its contents in plain text, or send you the wish list as plain text. That offer is real and you do not need to justify asking.

10. Enforcement and the standard we hold ourselves to

We apply WCAG 2.1 AA as our target regardless of what any particular court has said about whether a site like ours has to. It is the right standard for a page that a family shares.

11. Review

This statement is updated when the site changes materially, when a limitation is fixed, and when we discover a new one. The point of section 6 is that it should get shorter.

Contact: info@nerfguns.net