Vennado aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, on the website and in the planner. Some of that is checked by an automated test, some has been checked by hand, and some has not been tested yet, including with disabled people. This page says which is which.
What we aim for
- Every part of the site and the planner can be used with a keyboard alone, with a visible outline on whatever has focus.
- Pages work on a screen 320 pixels wide, the width of a small phone, without scrolling sideways.
- Text has a contrast of at least 5.4 to 1 against its background, which is more than the 4.5 to 1 that WCAG asks for at level AA.
- Buttons and other controls are at least 44 pixels high on a phone.
- Every form field has a label, and colour is never the only way something is shown.
- Nothing moves unless you do something, apart from one short animation on the home page picture, and that is switched off if your device asks for reduced motion.
How it has been checked
- An automated test of the planner. It works through the whole planner in a real browser, on screens 320 and 390 pixels wide and on a desktop screen, as two people would: starting a plan, adding a diary each way, sharing it, joining, voting and locking it in. In every view it measures every piece of text on screen against the 5.4 to 1 contrast floor, measures every control on the phone-sized screens against 44 pixels, and checks that the page does not scroll sideways. It fails if any of these is broken. It also checks that keyboard focus lands in the right place after the main actions.
- An automated accessibility checker. In the first technical review, in October 2026, the axe-core checker was run over 57 states of the site and the planner at phone and desktop widths. It found three problems: the overlap strip could not be scrolled from the keyboard on a phone, one label had too little contrast, and the spoken names of the day buttons did not match what they showed. All three were fixed. The site's design has changed since, and the checker has not yet been run over the new design or made part of every build.
- By hand. In the same review every step of the planner was worked through with the keyboard alone, at phone and desktop widths.
- At 320 pixels. On 10 October 2026, after the design changed, every page of the site was opened in a browser 320 pixels wide, and the automated test above was run through the whole planner at that width. None of them scrolls sideways.
What has not been tested yet
- With disabled people. Nobody who relies on a screen reader, switch access, voice control or a magnifier has tried Vennado yet. Our own tests find some problems, not all of them. If you would be willing to try it and tell us what goes wrong, we would like to hear from you.
- With screen readers from start to finish. The planner has labels and spoken announcements, but it has not yet been used end to end with VoiceOver, TalkBack or NVDA.
- On real phones. Most checks were made in a desktop browser set to phone sizes, not on phones with their own browsers and accessibility settings.
- Zoom and large text. Enlarging the page or the text has not been checked systematically.
Parts that are harder to use
- The overlap strip. The picture of everyone's busy and free time is visual. It has a short spoken summary and can be scrolled with the keyboard, and the same information is given in words: every free window and near miss is listed as text, with its day and times and, for a near miss, the name of the one person who cannot make it. If the picture does not work for you, use the list.
- Reading a rota. A rota sent as a screenshot, a PDF or a spreadsheet is read by an AI model, which can misread it. What it reads comes back as a table that you can check and correct with the keyboard. If reading does not work for you, paste the rota as text or type your shifts in by hand.
- Calendar links. Getting a calendar link means using Google's, Apple's or Microsoft's own settings, which we do not control. The guide to calendar links describes the steps in words. You can also tap your busy days in by hand.
- Sellers' websites. When you follow a link to book, the seller's own site may be more or less accessible than ours.
How Vennado works describes every step of the planner in words, if you would like to know what to expect before you start.
Tell us about a problem
If something on Vennado is hard or impossible for you to use, please email contact@sycamorehealthworks.com. It helps to say which page or step you were on, what you were trying to do, and the device, browser and any assistive technology you use, but send whatever you can. If you need something from the site in a different format, ask and we will do what we can. We will reply to say what we are going to do about it.
About this statement
This statement was written on 10 October 2026, from the tests described above. We will update it when we test more, and when we fix what those tests find.