Open defects, worst first
Accessibility
Not a statement of conformance. A list of what is known to be wrong with this site, ranked by how much it gets in the way, with what to do instead until each is fixed. Anything not listed was tested and passed.
Open defects
| Rank | What is wrong | What to do instead | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The send button on every form does nothing without scripts, because the checking happens in the browser and there is nothing to check with | The same six lines in a mail to [enquiries@travelundercost.com](mailto:enquiries@travelundercost.com) reach the same tray, and the form says so where it happens. Or telephone +1 (304) 346-2140 | Blocks one task, has a stated route round it |
| 2 | Under roughly 40rem the sheet and the company tables need a sideways drag. Four and five columns will not fold into a narrow screen | Every table on this site is preceded or followed by the same information in a label and value list or in prose on the same page | Awkward, not blocking |
| 3 | The tally of squares is a visual device for the company count | Already mitigated rather than pending: the count is printed in words beside every single tally, on every card, row and page. The squares carry nothing the words do not | Mitigated |
| 4 | No independent audit has been run | Nothing. This page does not claim conformance to a standard, which is why it lists defects rather than badges | Disclosure, not a defect |
Tested and passing
- Keyboard only, no mouse
- all thirty four pages, in a sensible order, with a visible focus outline and a skip link
- Text at 200 percent
- nothing cut off at a 1280 viewport
- Contrast
- every text and background pair measured, AA or better
- Heading order
- no level skipped on any page
- Image descriptions
- written for somebody who cannot see the frame, not filenames
- Reduced motion
- the one animation is removed entirely when the system asks
- Form labels
- real labels attached to fields, never placeholder text pretending
- Table headers
- row and column headers on every table, so a screen reader can say which column a figure is in
- Meaning carried by color
- none anywhere. The company count is a number in words; the tally is decoration
The same job, three other ways
- By telephone
- +1 (304) 346-2140, Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9 am to 5:30 pm, Wed to 7 pm Eastern. Name the page you were looking at. This route costs no more than any other and nothing gets turned away. Wednesday runs to 7 pm for people who cannot ring during a working day
- By mail
- [changes@travelundercost.com](mailto:changes@travelundercost.com), answered in writing either way
- In person
- by appointment at 707 Virginia Street East, Suite 1035, because it is an office and not a shop
Reporting something not on this list
Write to [changes@travelundercost.com](mailto:changes@travelundercost.com) naming the page, the browser or reader in use, and the thing that happened where something else should have. An answer in writing follows inside five working days, and the item joins the list above whether or not it has been fixed by then.
Say once how you need things delivered. It is written down and applied to every proposal after that, unprompted.
What is outside our control
The documents each operating company issues. Ours are plain. Theirs are theirs, and on a four company trip there are four sets. Should one turn up in a form you cannot use, say the word: it is read aloud down the line, or set out again in something workable.