Accessibility

Conformance target

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, which is the standard incorporated by reference into Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. Level AA is our working target across the whole storefront — browsing, search, product pages, cart, checkout, and account management.

This statement reflects a substantial-but-partial conformance claim: the great majority of the site meets Level AA, with the specific exceptions noted under “Known limitations” below.

What we build in

• Semantic landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) on every page, a single h1 per page, and headings that never skip a level.
• A “Skip to content” link that is the first focusable element on every page, jumping keyboard and screen-reader users straight to the main region.
• Every interactive control is reachable and operable by keyboard in a visible order, with a brass focus ring that is never removed.
• Dialogs and drawers (cart, menus, help) trap focus, close on Escape, and return focus to the control that opened them; a global Escape closes the help panel from anywhere.
• Form fields have associated labels, errors are linked with aria-describedby and summarised at the top of the form, and required fields are marked.
• Colour is never the only way meaning is conveyed — rarity pips and condition chips always carry a text label as well as a colour.
• Card images have alt text naming the card and set; purely decorative images use empty alt text so screen readers skip them.
• Text meets a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 and interface components at least 3:1, including the brass-on-dark combination (measured at roughly 11:1).
• Motion is reduced automatically when your system requests it (prefers-reduced-motion), including the scanner and any animated transitions.
• Layouts reflow without loss of content or horizontal scrolling when zoomed to 200 percent, down to a 320-pixel viewport.

Known limitations

We know accessibility is never “finished.” These are the areas we are aware of and continue to work on:

• Card artwork alt text names the card and set but does not describe the illustration itself; a full artwork description is not available from our image sources.
• Some structural hairline separators sit below the 3:1 non-text contrast threshold. They are decorative only — the containers they outline are already distinguished by their background tone and are never the sole means of identifying a control — so they are treated as decoration under WCAG 1.4.11 rather than required graphics.
• The card scanner relies on device camera hardware and browser permissions; where those are unavailable it falls back to manual search, which remains fully accessible.
• Automated (axe) testing runs in continuous integration, and manual keyboard-only and screen-reader (NVDA / VoiceOver) passes are performed, but not every third-party-sourced page state has been individually audited.

How we test

We run automated accessibility checks (axe) against key routes as part of our build pipeline, and supplement them with manual keyboard-only navigation and screen-reader passes using NVDA on Windows and VoiceOver on macOS. Automated tools catch only part of the picture, so the manual passes are what we rely on for judgement calls.