Accessibility statement

KOHVRA aims to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA across the public site, the sign-up flow, the member app and the administration console. This also satisfies Israeli Standard 5568 (accessibility of internet content), which adopts WCAG at level AA, and the requirements of the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Regulations (Service Accessibility Adjustments), 2013.

The site is published in English and Hebrew. The Hebrew interface is fully mirrored for right-to-left reading, and the document language is announced to assistive technology so screen readers switch voice automatically.

• Full keyboard operation. Every action can be reached with Tab and activated with Enter or Space, in a logical order, with a clearly visible focus ring. A skip link at the top of every page jumps straight to the content.
• Screen-reader support. Landmarks (header, navigation, main, footer), one heading hierarchy per page, labels on every control and icon button, alternative text for meaningful imagery and a text description of the hand-drawn island map.
• Color contrast at AA ratios for text and interface components, and no information conveyed by color alone.
• Reduced motion. Animations, map pulses and transitions are switched off when your system asks for less motion, and can be switched off manually from the accessibility menu.
• An accessibility menu on every public page: larger text in two steps, high contrast, underlined links, a plain readable font, a stronger focus ring and a stop-animations switch. Choices are saved on your device only.
• Touch targets of at least 44 by 44 pixels for primary actions and 24 pixels minimum everywhere, sized for a boat, a bike or a beach.
• Right-to-left layout and Hebrew localization of the public site, the sign-up flow and the member app.
• Text can be resized to 200 percent in the browser without loss of content or function, and pages reflow at 320 pixels wide without horizontal scrolling.
• Forms with visible labels, clear error messages announced to assistive technology, and no time limits on completing them.

Open it with the round accessibility button in the top corner of any public page or the sign-in screen. The menu is a dialog: Tab moves between its options, Escape closes it and returns focus to the button. Every option is a standard switch, so screen readers announce its state. "Reset to defaults" clears everything at once.

We track these limitations openly and are working on each of them:

• The illustrated map conveys some decorative context that is more concise in the list views of the member app. Every place on it is also available as a list.
• The live map inside the member app is built on a third-party map library. Its tiles are images without individual descriptions; places and members on it are also listed in text.
• Some external place photos supplied by Google Maps Platform have limited source descriptions.
• Keyboard and screen-reader testing of the mobile bottom sheets in the member app is ongoing.

Accessibility checks run alongside design reviews: automated audits for contrast and semantics, manual keyboard walkthroughs, and screen-reader passes with VoiceOver on macOS and iOS. Pages are checked in current versions of the major browsers, on phones and desktops. Real-world testing with assistive-technology users is planned before any public launch.

If anything on KOHVRA is hard to use with your device, browser or assistive technology, we want to know. That report is a gift.

Write to our accessibility coordinator at talm13124@gmail.com with the page, what you were trying to do and what happened. We reply within five business days with a fix or a timeline, and if you need the information on a page in another form, we will provide it.

If you feel your report was not handled properly, you may contact the Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Israeli Ministry of Justice, or the equivalent authority where you live.

This statement is published in English and Hebrew. Both versions are intended to say the same thing.