Accessibility

A storybook should welcome every reader. These are the commitments built into the product rather than added afterwards. We are describing what we aim for and what we have built — not a formal certification.

Reading

• Story text lives in real HTML, never baked into images, so it can be zoomed, selected and read by assistive technology.
• Artwork always uses contain-fit, so no illustration is cropped awkwardly.
• Every page turn is announced to screen readers.
• Illustrations carry descriptive alternative text where they carry meaning.

Read to Me

• Each story page has a Read to Me control that reads the page text aloud using your browser's built-in speech, with play, pause and stop.
• It follows the reading language where your browser has a matching voice, and it moves on with the story when pages turn.
• Availability depends on your browser and device. Where speech is not supported the control is not offered, and the story text itself remains fully readable by a screen reader.
• Speech stops when you leave the reader, mute, or reach the end of a free preview.

Input

• Swipe on touch devices, arrow keys on desktop, large tap targets everywhere.
• Escape leaves the reader and returns to the family library.
• Visible focus outlines on all interactive elements, and controls labelled for screen readers.

Motion and language

• All forest animation is disabled when your device requests reduced motion.
• Right-to-left layout for Arabic, including reversed page-turn direction.
• An on-page translate control offers display translation into many languages.

Contrast and standards

We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, and design colour, type size and controls with that target in mind. The site has not yet been through a formal independent accessibility audit, so we describe this as our working target rather than a certified result.

Found a barrier?

Please tell us through the contact and support page and we will look at it and fix what we can.