Accessibility

Reading Scrollwork with a keyboard, a screen reader, larger text, more contrast or less motion, and how to tell us about a barrier.

Scrollwork is meant to be read by everyone. What has been tested, what has not, and the standard it aims at are set out in full on the accessibility statement. This page says how to use what is there.

With a keyboard

Every page begins with Skip to the content, the first stop of Tab.
Every control can be reached with Tab and used with Enter or Space; focus is always shown with a clear ring.
Menus are walked with the arrow keys and closed with Esc, which returns you where you were.
In the reader, each verse can be focused: Enter opens its Study menu, and Menu or Shift+F10 its Your study menu.
Every shortcut is listed on Keyboard shortcuts.

Larger text

Your browser's zoom enlarges everything.
Text size on your account page, under Appearance, sets Standard, +2, +4 or +6 for all of Scrollwork, and carries over to the public pages in a browser you have signed in with.
The Study Reader's own Text size, Line spacing, Typeface and Width, under View, sit on top of it.

Light, dark and contrast

Brightness, on your account page, follows your device, or stays always light or always dark. The reader's Paper adds White, Sepia and Night. Text is set to the contrast the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ask for (level AA), in light and in dark, and so are the reader's highlight inks.

Less motion

If your device is set to reduce motion, Scrollwork honours it: the menu opens without unrolling, the lineage and the charts draw without animation, the coins' gold holds still, the reader's fades are off, and Biblical Art never glides on its own and shows each film's still picture with a play button.

Controls are named, pages have landmarks and headings, and changes are announced: the chapter opening, the lineage's zoom and the era you stand in, the tour's steps, the Bookshelf's choice. The Hebrew and Greek are marked with their languages, and Hebrew reads right to left.

Scrollwork has not yet been tested with a screen reader by a person who uses one, and the lineage's overall shape may be hard to convey; the statement names these limits. On a phone, the lineage becomes a list, which may be easier to read.

Tell us about a barrier

If something stops you reading or using Scrollwork, write through the contact page: which page, what you were trying to do, what happened, and the browser and any assistive technology you use. A barrier is treated as a defect to fix, not a request.