Accessibility

A website every family can use.

Last updated October 5, 2026

Our commitment

We make books so that more children see a family like theirs in a story: two dads, a grandma raising them, hearing aids, a wheelchair. A website that shuts some of those families out would break that promise. So the site should work with a keyboard alone, with a screen reader, zoomed in to large text, on a small phone, and with motion turned down.

The standard we aim for

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. They are published by the World Wide Web Consortium and are the standard most laws and courts point to. In plain words, they ask that everything on a page can be seen or heard another way, can be used without a mouse, is easy to follow, and works with the tools people use to browse.

We test our own work. No outside company has audited the site yet.

How we test

• An automated check on every public page. It uses axe, an open checker made by Deque, at a desktop width and a phone width. It also opens the parts of pages that only appear after a click: the phone menu, the inside pages of the sample book, and the waiting list form showing an error. It fails if it finds a single problem. It is part of the checks we run on the site.
• A keyboard pass by hand, on October 5, 2026: every public page with only the Tab, Enter, Space and arrow keys. We checked that every link and button can be reached and used, that you can always see where you are, and that nothing traps you.
• What a screen reader is told, on October 5, 2026: one main heading per page, headings in order, labels on every form field, error messages tied to the field they are about, names on every button, and announcements when something on the page changes, such as the page you have turned to in a book. We checked this by reading what the browser hands to a screen reader. We have not yet tested with each screen reader on each device, so a spoken pass with VoiceOver and other screen readers is still to come.
• Zoom, spacing and motion: pages fit a screen 320 pixels wide without sideways scrolling, text still fits when its spacing is increased, buttons are at least 24 pixels across or have that much room around them, and when your device asks for reduced motion, the animations stop and every page rests finished. Nothing on the site plays sound by itself.
• Color contrast: a separate check measures the contrast of the text on every page against the standard.

What is not perfect yet

• The printed book. Our books are picture books on paper. We do not make braille or large print editions today.
• The PDF. The digital edition’s PDF is made for reading by eye and for printing. It is not a tagged PDF, so a screen reader may read its words out of order or not at all. The same book can be read in your browser, where the words are real text.
• Descriptions of the pictures. The sample book you can turn on this site, Our First Camping Trip, has a written description of every picture. The pictures in a family’s own book, when it is read on its share link or in your account, do not have written descriptions yet. The words of every page are real text.
• Pages behind a sign in. Your account, the proof you approve and the recording page are checked by hand less often than the public pages, and the automated check covers the public pages and the sign in page only.

Tell us

If anything on this site is hard to use, or something stops you from ordering, please write to hello@ourkindofstory.com. It helps to tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what you use to browse, such as a screen reader, a keyboard or zoom. A person reads every message.

You can also read how we handle your family’s photos on our privacy page.