1. Our commitment.
Othvane LLC wants TealDrop to be usable by as many people as possible, including people who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, screen magnification, larger system text, or reduced motion. Accessibility is something we work on continuously, not something we finished.
2. Standard we work to.
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA.
3. Conformance status.
TealDrop is PARTIALLY CONFORMANT with WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the service do not fully conform to the standard. We are telling you this plainly rather than claiming more than we can demonstrate.
4. What we have done so far.
Every text color in the app has been measured against every background it is used on, in both the light and dark themes, and all of them meet or exceed the WCAG AA ratio of 4.5 to 1 for normal text. The interface follows your device's system text size, so making text larger in your operating system makes TealDrop larger too. Celebration animations and celebration sounds can both be turned off in Settings, and the sound is off unless you switch it on. A high-contrast theme, a color-blind-safe palette, a dyslexia-friendly font, and a reduced-motion setting are all available. Real heading elements have been added across the main screens and dialogs so that a screen reader can move between sections. Dialogs announce themselves as dialogs, close with the Escape key, and return focus to the control that opened them. Right-to-left languages now mirror the layout, including directional icons. Every interactive control that we could measure from the source code has been brought up to the Level AA target size of 24 by 24 pixels. The consistency map carries a written summary for screen readers. The service is translated into nine languages. The interface has been measured at 400 per cent zoom, at 200 per cent text size, and with user text-spacing overrides applied, on every main screen in both themes, without horizontal scrolling or clipped content.
Planner PDFs. Every planner TealDrop generates conforms to PDF/UA-1 (ISO 14289-1), the accessibility standard for PDF. Each document carries a tag tree, a language, marked content, artifacts marked as artifacts, embedded fonts, and a descriptive name on every form field — so a field announces as "Habits to Track, Goal (times per week), row 3" rather than "text field". We verify this with veraPDF, the open-source reference checker for the standard; our test planners report 106 of 106 rules passed with zero failed checks. If you find a planner that does not behave this way with your assistive technology, email legal@othvane.com and we will treat it as a defect.
- 5. Known limitations. We know about the following, and we are working on them:
- (a) TealDrop has not had an independent third-party accessibility audit. Everything here is from our own testing.
- (b) Heading structure has been added but not verified with assistive technology. The main screens and dialogs now use real heading elements, but we have not confirmed with a screen reader that every screen can be navigated by headings, and some smaller screens still rely on generic containers.
- (c) Touch targets meet the WCAG 2.2 Level AA minimum of 24 by 24 pixels, but many do not reach 44 by 44 pixels, which is the higher Level AAA size and the figure Apple and Google recommend in their platform guidelines. Smaller controls are therefore still harder to hit accurately on a phone than they could be.
- (d) Right-to-left layout is implemented but has not been reviewed by a native reader. Arabic now mirrors the interface, including directional icons, but the shareable progress image is still drawn left to right, and text that mixes Arabic with Latin characters or numerals may not read correctly.
- (e) The consistency map now carries a written summary for screen readers, but the progress charts and the streak visualisation do not, so their information is still harder to obtain without sight.
- (f) Some headings are set at a fixed size rather than scaling fluidly, which can crowd the layout at very large text sizes or on very small screens.
- (g) Some interface copy in languages other than English has not yet been reviewed by a native speaker.
- (h) We have not tested against every combination of browser, operating system, and assistive technology.
6. How we assessed this.
Self-evaluation by Othvane LLC. Color contrast was measured programmatically across every text color and background pair in both themes, and the heading, dialog, and right-to-left changes were verified by inspecting the code. Target sizes were measured programmatically across 358 interactive controls; 245 of them could be measured from the source code and all of those now meet the Level AA minimum, while 113 use computed or inherited styling that can only be checked on a real device. Zoom and text-spacing behavior has been measured on every main screen — Overview, My Week, My Planners and Settings — in both the light and dark themes: at the 320-pixel width that WCAG 1.4.10 requires for 400 per cent zoom, at 200 per cent text size under 1.4.4, and with the text-spacing overrides of 1.4.12 applied. None of them produced horizontal scrolling, clipped text, or content that could not be reached by scrolling. We have not yet tested TealDrop with a screen reader or by keyboard alone, so the limitations above are what we know of rather than a complete list. No third-party audit or formal accessibility evaluation report has been carried out.
7. Technical information.
TealDrop is a web application that relies on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and ARIA. It is designed for current versions of Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, on desktop and mobile, with the assistive technologies built into those platforms.
8. Tell us about a problem, and get help.
If you hit a barrier in TealDrop, or you need something in a different format — a planner, a policy, or anything else — email legal@othvane.com and tell us what you were trying to do and what got in the way. We aim to reply within 5 business days and to propose a solution or a workaround within 10 business days. If we cannot fix it quickly, we will find another way to give you access to what you need.
9. Formal complaints.
If you are not satisfied with how we responded, say so in your reply and we will escalate it internally. Depending on where you live you may also be able to complain to a national accessibility or equality body.
10. Review.
We review this statement at least once a year, and whenever we make a significant change to the service. It was last reviewed on the date at the top.