Accessibility
Built for every kind of brain and body
The big picture: This guide is for people who may be tired, stressed, disabled, neurodivergent, or reading on a phone in a waiting room. We built it to be easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to come back to.
Our goal
We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 (outside site) at level AA, with text contrast at the stricter AAA level of 7 to 1 wherever we can. We also follow the W3C's guidance for people with cognitive and learning disabilities. Source: WCAG 2.2 Source: W3C cognitive accessibility guidance
What you can use
- Reading settings, at the top of every page: larger text, dark mode, high contrast, more space between letters and lines, and a short version that hides the "Go deeper" sections.
- Steps you can check off, so you do not have to remember where you left off. They are saved only if you choose.
- The path finder, which shows only the steps that fit you.
- The same layout on every page: the big picture first, then why it matters, then the steps, then the details.
- Underlined links and a bright yellow highlight that shows where you are when you use a keyboard.
- Copy buttons for addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
- Print-friendly pages with a clean checklist and the full web address of every link.
- Works without JavaScript. The extras turn off, and the content stays.
- Respects your device: dark mode, high contrast, reduced motion, and text size settings.
How we test
- Every build checks the contrast of every color pair in every theme, broken links, page structure, and reading level.
- An automated accessibility checker, axe-core, runs on every page in the project's automated checks.
- We test with a keyboard only, at 400 percent zoom, and on a small phone screen.
Known limits
- This is a beta. We have not yet tested it with screen reader users or with neurodivergent and disabled trans people. We want to, and we want to pay them for their time.
- Official forms we link to are PDFs from courts and agencies. Some may be hard to use with assistive technology. We cannot fix those, but the court self-help centers can help.
- Oregon's online Guide & File tool takes answers in English only. Source: Oregon Guide & File
- The site is in English only for now. Translations need careful legal review, and they are on our list.
Tell us what does not work
If anything here is hard to use, tell us. Say what you were trying to do and what got in the way. You do not need to share anything about yourself.
Sources for this page
We read each of these on the date shown. See every source and what each label means.
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, W3C (W3C Recommendation, December 12, 2024). Checked November 3, 2026.
- Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities, W3C (W3C Working Group Note, April 29, 2021). Checked November 3, 2026.
- Guide & File: free online court form interviews, Oregon Judicial Department (Live page). Checked November 3, 2026.