Accessibility
The settings you can change, what we have got right, and what we have not. Written after checking rather than from a template.
Last updated 10 September 2026
1.Change how this site looks
These apply immediately and follow you around the site. They are stored in this browser only, so they work signed out, and they are also in Settings once you have an account.
Your system setting is followed unless you override it here.
Scales everything. Your browser's own zoom still works on top of it.
Darkens text and strengthens rules, without flattening the palette.
Opens up line height, letter and word spacing for easier tracking.
Kept in this browser only, never sent to us.
2.What we are aiming at
WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We are not claiming to have finished, because a claim like that is only worth anything after an audit and we have not had one. What follows is what is true today.
3.What works
The site is built from ordinary HTML with real headings, real form labels and real buttons, which is most of what a screen reader needs. Every page can be operated from the keyboard, focus is visible, and the landing page has a skip link to the search box.
We honour your system’s reduced-motion setting without being asked, and the panel above lets you override it for this site alone. Colours are defined so that text meets the AA contrast ratio in both the light and dark palettes, and the contrast setting pushes them further. Nothing is conveyed by colour alone.
Text scales. The layout is built in relative units, so browser zoom to 200% works without losing content, and the spacing setting applies the line, letter and word spacing that WCAG 1.4.12 asks for.
4.What does not, yet
No independent audit has been done, and no assistive technology testing beyond keyboard and the browser’s own inspector. That is the honest state of it.
The search results are a dense grid of facts, and while it reads correctly in order we have not tested how tiring that is with a screen reader on a long result set. Some generated documentation pages inherit heading levels from their source and may skip a level. If you hit either, telling us moves it up the list.
5.Why there is no accessibility overlay
Overlay widgets sit on top of a site and re-describe it to assistive technology. They tend to make things worse, because they hide the real markup behind a layer nobody tested, and people who rely on screen readers have said so consistently. The settings above change the actual page instead.
6.Tell us
If something here is unusable, write to accessibility@bighugger.com and say what you were trying to do and what got in the way. We will reply, and we will tell you honestly whether it is a quick fix or a long one.