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Accessibility Statement

This service is built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA as an engineering target. That is a target we work to and test against — not a certification, and not a claim that we have got everything right.

Effective date: [not yet published — effective date]

This policy is not final.

It describes what this application actually does, and that part is accurate. It is missing details only the operator can supply — the addresses a request should go to, and the date this text takes effect — and those are marked below. The service is not released while they are missing.

What we aim for

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. In practice that means every learner flow — browsing Kana and Kanji, studying vocabulary, practising, taking tests, and reading results — should work with a keyboard alone, should be understandable with a screen reader, and should stay usable when text is enlarged.

What has been done

  • Semantic HTML with real landmarks, headings and form labels, rather than generic elements given click handlers.
  • A skip link to the main content, and a visible focus indicator on every interactive control.
  • Keyboard operation of the navigation menus, flashcard decks, practice runners and dialogs, including Escape to close and focus returning where it came from.
  • Japanese text marked with lang="ja" so a screen reader reads it with a Japanese voice rather than spelling it out in English.
  • Audio controls that are labelled, keyboard operable, and never play automatically.
  • Timed test screens that announce time remaining without reading a countdown aloud every second.
  • Automated accessibility checks running against every learner-facing route as part of the test suite, including a live practice runner and a Reading passage with a real data table.

Known limitations

Stated plainly, because a statement with no limitations is usually one nobody checked:

  • No independent audit has been carried out, and no testing with assistive-technology users has taken place. Everything above was verified by the engineering team and by automated tooling.
  • Strict Simulation is timed, and the timing is the point. It exists to reproduce exam conditions, so its section time limits are not adjustable. Every other way of practising the same material — practice, review, section tests and the practice mock — is untimed. If you need extra time in a simulated sitting, there is currently no accommodation for that, and it is recorded as an open question rather than a settled decision.
  • Screen-reader behaviour with mixed Japanese and English has been reviewed in markup but varies between screen readers and voice packs, particularly for readings and romaji shown alongside kana.

When this was last reviewed

This statement describes the review completed before the service opened, and it takes effect on the date at the top of this page. That review covered every learner-facing route: automated WCAG 2.2 A/AA checks on each one, and manual keyboard, focus-order, zoom, reflow and contrast checks alongside them. It was carried out by the people who build the service.

It is not a certification, and it is not a claim of compliance with any accessibility law. Nobody independent has audited this service, and we are not in a position to certify ourselves.

Telling us about a problem

If something here is unusable for you, we want to know, and a specific report is far more useful than a general one — the page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what happened.

Accessibility reports go to accessibility@nihongoready.com.