Accessibility statement

Last reviewed: 2 October 2026. This statement applies to the website at meatproxycertification.org, including the exams, the certificate pages, the PDF download and the email form.

The standard we aim for

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA across the whole site. Where this page says something is a known gap, we are not claiming conformance for it.

How the site is built to be accessible

• The whole journey (landing page, exam, entering a name, certificate, email form) is designed to be completed with a keyboard alone, with touch alone, and with a screen reader. Every page has a skip link, landmarks and exactly one main heading. When an exam step changes, focus moves to the new step's heading.
• Exam answers are native radio buttons and switches inside labelled groups, never buttons pretending to be options. Each question is one form with one visible submit button at least 44 by 44 pixels. Pressing Enter on an answer submits the form; the button is always named too.
• There are no time limits. The "time-to-approve" clock on the exam is cosmetic, is hidden from assistive technology, never fails anyone and never submits anything. It can be hidden, and key auto-repeat can be turned off, from a panel at the top of the exam; both settings persist for the tab.
• Status changes are announced once, through a polite live region. Simulated "typing" effects are visual only, can be skipped, and are switched off entirely when your system asks for reduced motion. Nothing flashes.
• Text contrast is at least 4.5:1 and interface contrast at least 3:1 in both the light and dark colour schemes. The colour scheme follows your system setting. Nothing is conveyed by colour alone: pass and fail lines carry words and an icon. The site works in Windows high-contrast (forced colours) mode.
• The site reflows at 320 CSS pixels wide and at 400% zoom without horizontal scrolling. Text is set in rem units, with no fixed aspect ratios or viewport-unit font sizes, so your own font-size settings apply. The browser's zoom is never disabled.
• Form fields have visible labels, autocomplete attributes, and text error messages tied to the field. Pasting is never blocked. The name field and the printed name use automatic text direction so right-to-left names display correctly.
• Information you have already entered in a session is not asked for again.
• Without JavaScript, every content and legal page is fully readable; the exam and certificate pages explain in plain text what needs JavaScript and why.
• The site uses no web fonts and no third-party scripts, except Cloudflare Turnstile on the email form, which loads only when you open the form.
• The accessible HTML certificate is the canonical certificate. The PDF and the print-out are convenience copies of it.

Known gaps

We would rather tell you than have you find out.

• The PDF certificate is not a tagged PDF. It is generated in your browser without any PDF library, so it has a document title and language but no reading-order structure, no tagged headings and no alternative text. It does not conform to PDF/UA and we do not claim that it does. The certificate page itself is the accessible version and contains exactly the same text; use it, or the Print option, if the PDF does not work for you.
• The PDF can only draw names in the Latin alphabet (Western European letters, plus Ł and ł). For other scripts, such as Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese with tone marks, Thai or Hebrew, the Download PDF button is replaced by a line saying so, and the Print option produces the same certificate with the name rendered by your browser.
• Cloudflare Turnstile on the email form is a third-party component inside a frame. Its accessibility is Cloudflare's responsibility, not something we can change; it normally completes without any interaction. If it blocks you, the certificate is already yours to download and print without it.
• The badge images (/badge/<track>.svg) and the social-sharing images use small fixed-colour text; they have text alternatives but are not themselves high-contrast or resizable. They are optional extras for README files and link previews, not content.
• The exam panel is dark in both colour schemes to look like a terminal. Its text and focus indicators pass the contrast thresholds above, but if you prefer light backgrounds there is no toggle; the content outside the panel follows your system scheme.
• Testing status. Before launch, every page and every exam state is checked with an automated tool (axe), the whole journey is walked through with a keyboard alone, a screen-reader pass is made with VoiceOver or NVDA, and print-to-PDF is checked on A4 and Letter paper. As at the date at the top of this page these checks are launch-checklist items and their results have not yet been recorded here; treat anything not listed above as not yet verified by us. This paragraph and the date are updated when the checks are done. The written test script is in the project README.

Reporting a problem

If you cannot use part of this site, or find anything on it that does not meet the standard above, please email [email protected] with "Accessibility" in the subject line. Tell us which page, what you were trying to do, and which browser and assistive technology you were using. We will reply within 14 days and fix what we can; this is a small site run by one operator, so a fix may take longer than a reply.

If you are in the EU or the UK and are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the body in your country responsible for enforcing web accessibility rules. We are a private satirical site, not a public body, so those rules may not apply to us; we will still take your report seriously.

Technical notes

The site is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript ES modules with no framework. It relies on the browser's own form controls, focus handling and implicit submission. It is designed for current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, on desktop and phone. Reduced motion, forced colours and both colour schemes are supported through standard media queries.