Accessibility Statement

Conformance target

Verbata's accessibility target for verbata.com is Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, published by the W3C. This is a forward-looking commitment describing the standard every page on this site is built against, rather than a claim that a formal third-party audit has already certified full conformance. Verbata has not published an independent accessibility audit or conformance report for this site.

How the current page is built

This is a small, pre-launch site, so the honest way to describe accessibility here is to describe what the shipped markup actually does. On the current coming-soon page at verbata.com:

• The page is built with semantic HTML5 — one <main> landmark, one <h1>, and a lang attribute on the <html> element so assistive technology applies the correct language rules.
• The Verbata wordmark and its decorative line art are inline SVG marked aria-hidden; the logo container carries role="img" with a single aria-label="Verbata", so screen readers announce one clear name instead of raw path data.
• The early-access email field has a real, programmatically associated <label> (visually hidden, not a placeholder standing in for one), and is linked to its status message via aria-describedby.
• Form feedback uses ARIA live regions: validation errors are announced via aria-live="assertive", and the success confirmation via aria-live="polite" with role="status", so the outcome is announced without the visitor needing to find it visually.
• The email field and submit button have a visible :focus-visible outline, distinct from the page background, for people navigating by keyboard.
• The stylesheet includes a prefers-reduced-motion: reduce rule that turns off the logo-draw animation, the reveal transitions, and the pulsing launch-date indicator for visitors whose system requests reduced motion.
• The viewport meta tag does not disable pinch-zoom, so visitors who need to magnify the page can.
• A <noscript> message explains what to do if JavaScript is unavailable, rather than leaving the page blank.

Colour contrast check

The site's secondary text uses #625f59 against the #f1efe9 page background. The contrast ratio calculated from those stylesheet colours is 5.53 to 1, above WCAG 2.2 AA's 4.5 to 1 minimum for normal text. This calculation covers that colour pairing only; it is not a full accessibility audit or a claim of site-wide conformance. Verbata has not published an independent accessibility audit or conformance report for this site.

Report an accessibility barrier

If anything on verbata.com is hard to use with a screen reader, keyboard-only navigation, voice control, or magnification, or if something in this statement doesn't match what you actually experience, please tell us: hello@verbata.com. Include the page URL and, if you can, the browser or assistive technology you were using — it helps track the problem down. Verbata aims to acknowledge accessibility reports promptly and will work through genuine barriers as they're confirmed.

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