Accessibility

Make the information easier to use without pretending one interface fits everyone.

This site treats accessibility as a person, task and environment question. The website uses shared readable patterns and the cooking content describes observable task demands rather than applying universal “accessible” badges.

Reading and navigation

The responsive layout is designed to reflow from narrow phones through large screens without horizontal page scrolling. Primary interactive controls use touch-sized targets, navigation has a compact mobile form, and long article text is kept to a readable measure.

The site includes Standard and Easy Read display modes. These change presentation, not the underlying evidence or recipe content, and the selected mode is remembered only in the local browser.

Keyboard and semantic controls

Navigation, buttons, disclosure controls, share tools and browser-local planning tools are built from ordinary links, buttons, forms and details controls so they remain usable without pointer-only interactions. Pages include a skip link to move directly to the main content.

Images and social previews

Approved food images carry descriptive alternative text. Where a page does not have approved photography, its social preview uses branded editorial artwork rather than a fabricated food photograph. Decorative graphics should not carry information that exists nowhere in text.

Print is a first-class output

Recipes, plans, shopping lists, Guides and worksheets have print-oriented layouts. Printed material carries the canonical source address so another reader can return to the current web version when information changes.

Practical cooking accessibility is not a certification

Cooking Guides and practical resources can discuss reach, grip, vision, standing, fatigue, one-handed tasks, sequencing and other observable demands. They cannot certify that a recipe, tool or kitchen is safe or suitable for every person with a diagnosis or disability.

Where permanent kitchen changes, rehabilitation, falls risk, cognition, swallowing, severe fatigue or another high-consequence issue is involved, individualised professional assessment may be more appropriate than generic design advice.

What this statement does not claim

This page describes the design and content approach. It is not a claim of formal conformance certification, compatibility with every assistive-technology combination, or independent validation of every practical cooking adaptation.