Accessibility
Built to be read by everyone
Our target
The Week, Brewed aims for WCAG 2.1 Level AA across the site and the newsletter. That isn't a poster on the wall: every text and surface color pairing in every theme is checked against the AA contrast floor by an automated test that runs before any change ships. If a palette can't clear 4.5:1, it doesn't ship.
Reading, your way
The Display menu in the header is an accessibility feature wearing an editorial hat: six color themes (including a high-contrast newsprint mode and three dark modes), six reading typefaces, and three layout densities that adjust type size, line length, and spacing. Your choices are remembered on your device and applied before the page first paints. First visits start in Midnight, our dark house theme, until you pick something else.
Keyboard, motion, and structure
Every page starts with a skip-to-content link, everything interactive is reachable and operable by keyboard with a visible focus outline, and decorative graphics are hidden from screen readers. If your system asks for reduced motion, we honor it — transitions and animations are switched off, not merely shortened. Pages use one h1, real landmarks, and properly ordered headings, so the site reads cleanly in a screen reader's page outline.
Tell us where it fails
If any part of the site or an issue is hard to read, hard to operate, or hard to hear, that's a bug in the paper, not in you. Write to hello@theweekbrewed.com and we'll fix it — accessibility reports go to the top of the pile.