Accessibility

Perchworth is a tool for thinking through senior-care decisions, and the senior in question is often the one looking over the shoulder. We design for the reader, not the screenshot — the typography, contrast, and target sizes here are tuned so a 78-year-old caregiver and the 85-year-old parent they're researching can both use the site without hitting their browser's zoom button.

What we've done

• Body text starts at 18 pixels. Standard web body type is 14–16 pixels, which is fine if you're 25 but harder if your near vision has drifted. We default to 18, and everything scales with your browser's zoom setting.
• High contrast on every body line. We don't fade body text for stylistic reasons. The text you're reading right now is full opacity against the page background, meeting WCAG AAA for body copy.
• Links look like links. Inside paragraphs we underline by default — color alone isn't enough for some color-vision changes that come with age. Buttons are clearly buttons, not just colored text.
• Keyboard navigation works everywhere. Every interactive control shows a clear focus ring when tabbed to, so people who don't use a mouse can always tell where they are.
• Acronyms are spelled out on first use. We'll write "Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE)" before we use the short form, and we err on the side of plain language across the site.
• No timed flows that disappear silently. Save and sign-in confirmations stay on screen until you dismiss them. Nothing important auto-hides.
• No tracking pop-ups, no cookie-banner gauntlet. No third-party analytics, no retargeting pixels, no behavioral ad networks. The only promotion anywhere on the site is clearly-labeled vendor sponsorship in its own slots — never in your dashboard, your documents, or the calculator.

What we're still working on

• A built-in larger-text toggle for people who want bigger than 18px without changing their browser settings.
• A high-contrast mode for people who find the warm paper-and-ink color palette uncomfortable.
• Screen-reader audit on every page. The site is built on standard semantic HTML, so most of this works already — but we want to be sure.

If something doesn't work

If a control is too small, the type is hard to read, a color combination doesn't work, or a screen reader stumbles on something, please email hello@perchworth.com. Specific complaints — "the comment composer buttons are too close together" — fix faster than general feedback, but anything you tell us helps.

Perchworth aims for WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and is actively working toward AAA on body copy. Like our privacy page, this page changes when our practices change — never the other way around.