Accessibility statement

Our goal

Vid Receipts is a public record of what happens in videos, and that record should be usable no matter how you read the web. We want people who rely on a keyboard, a screen reader, or a reduced-motion setting to be able to watch a video, read the receipts pinned to it, and write their own.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Vid Receipts aims to conform to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. The service is partially conformant: some parts do not yet fully conform. Partially conformant means most of the product meets the standard, while a few areas, listed under known limitations below, still fall short.

What works today

You can move through the core loop with a keyboard alone. Today that includes:

• Watching a video, reading its receipts, and writing your own without reaching for a mouse.
• A "Skip to main content" link on every page, so pressing Tab first lets you jump past the header straight to the content.
• Icon-only controls that tell a screen reader what they are, from the account menu to the copy-link buttons, and copy confirmations you can hear.
• Reduced-motion support: when your device asks for less motion, the hover zooms and the auto-scrolling carousels stay still.

Known limitations

We know about these gaps and are working on them:

• The video player. The player's own controls (play, volume, captions, the progress bar) are built and served by YouTube, so we cannot change how a screen reader reads them. To keep them out of your way, we provide a "Skip the video player" link that moves focus past the player to the receipts.
• Captions. Captions come from each video's creator on YouTube, not from us. If a video has no captions, we cannot add them.
• The formatting toolbar. The receipt formatting toolbar reports each button's label and pressed state, but you cannot yet move between its buttons with the arrow keys. You can still reach every button with Tab.
• Light-theme color contrast. Some text in the light theme does not yet meet the WCAG contrast minimums. We are adjusting our colors so it reads clearly in both themes.

Send us feedback

If you hit a barrier we have not listed here, tell us. Email info@vidreceipts.com with the page you were on and what went wrong. We aim to reply within five business days.

How we test

We evaluate Vid Receipts with the NVDA screen reader and Chrome on Windows, and we run automated accessibility checks when we review changes to the interface. A manual screen reader pass is part of how we review any change that affects page structure, focus order, or controls.