Skip to content

Policy

Accessibility statement

We sell accessibility checks, so this site has to pass them too.

Last updated
17 August 2026
Applies to
huegrade.com and every tool on it

Our goal

We aim to conform to WCAG 2.2 Level AA across the whole site, including the interactive tools — not only the marketing pages. Where we cannot meet AA, we say so on this page rather than leaving it for you to discover.

Current status: partially conformant. Most of the site meets WCAG 2.2 AA. The known gaps are listed under Known limitations. This assessment is our own — a self-evaluation, not a third-party audit or an accredited certification.

What this means in practice

These are commitments, not aspirations. Each one is testable, and each is something we treat as a bug when it breaks.

Contrast

  • Body text meets a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 against its background; large text and UI boundaries meet at least 3:1.
  • We check this with our own contrast checker, using the same arithmetic the product exposes to you. If the tool says a pairing fails, that pairing does not ship on our own site either.
  • Color swatches are an exception by nature: a palette exists to show you a color, including an illegible one. Wherever we print text on a user color, the text color is chosen by contrast calculation rather than by eye, so it stays readable whatever the palette does.

Color is never the only signal

Pass and fail states carry an icon and a word (AA, AAA, Fail) alongside the green or red. Locked swatches, selected tabs and error states are all distinguishable without perceiving color at all — the same standard the color-vision simulator exists to help you hold your own work to.

Keyboard

  • Every interactive control is reachable and operable with the keyboard alone.
  • Focus is always visible. We do not remove focus rings; where a default ring is invisible against a colored surface, we replace it with one that is not.
  • Focus order follows the visual order, and focus is not trapped anywhere except in modal dialogs, where it is deliberate and Escape closes the dialog.
  • Keyboard shortcuts are additions, never the only route. The generator’s spacebar regenerate has a visible button that does the same thing.

Structure and assistive technology

  • One h1 per page, headings in order, and landmarks so a screen reader’s landmark list is navigable. Where a page has two nav landmarks, each is labelled.
  • Decorative icons are hidden from assistive technology; meaningful ones carry a text alternative.
  • Form fields have real, associated labels. Errors are described in text, not only by turning a border red.
  • Live results — a contrast ratio updating as you drag a slider — are announced, not silently changed.

Motion and zoom

  • We honour prefers-reduced-motion. Animation on this site is decorative; none of it is required to understand or use a tool.
  • Nothing flashes more than three times per second.
  • Content reflows to a 320px-wide viewport and remains usable at 200% zoom without loss of function.

Time and interruption

There are no session timeouts in the tools, no carousels that move on their own, and no content that expires while you are reading it.

Known limitations

We would rather publish this list than a badge.

  • Third-party embeds. The photo editor is built on Filerobot, a third-party library whose interface we do not control. Its keyboard and screen reader support has not been verified to AA, and we cannot fix it directly. Every palette feature it supports is also reachable through the photo picker, which we do control.
  • Advertising. Ad units are served by Google AdSense; their contents are not authored by us and are not covered by this statement. Pro accounts see no ads.
  • Stock photo results. Images from Pixabay carry the alternative text their authors supplied, which is sometimes thin. Images you upload never leave your browser and are described as the file you chose.
  • Complex visual output. Some output — a gradient, a rendered mockup, a color-vision simulation — is inherently visual. We pair it with the numbers (ratios, hex values, blend space, pass or fail) so the conclusion is available in text even when the picture is not.
  • Third-party audit. We have not commissioned an independent accessibility audit. The status above is a self-assessment.

How we test

  • Automated checks in the browser during development.
  • Manual keyboard-only passes on each tool.
  • Screen reader spot-checks.
  • Our own checker and color-vision simulator, run against our own interface — the diagnosis half of the product is free permanently, so anyone can reproduce our contrast claims about this site.

Automated tooling catches a minority of real issues. Where the two disagree, manual testing wins.

Feedback

If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, tell us — including the parts we have not listed above. We treat accessibility reports as defects, not feature requests.

mdfaysalkhancse@gmail.com

Please include the page URL, what you were trying to do, and the browser and assistive technology you were using, if any. We aim to acknowledge reports within 5 business days and to give you a fix or a timeline within 10 business days. If we cannot make something accessible, we will tell you plainly and offer another way to get the same result.

Formal complaints

This statement is voluntary. If you believe we have not responded adequately, you are free to escalate under whichever accessibility law applies where you live — for example the ADA in the United States, the European Accessibility Act or your national equivalent in the EU, or the Equality Act in the UK. We would rather hear from you first.

This statement is reviewed whenever a tool ships or changes materially, and at minimum once a year.