Accessibility

Our commitment

Maize Drones is committed to making this website usable for the widest possible audience, including people who use assistive technologies such as screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, switch devices, and motion-reduction settings. Accessibility is treated as a first-class engineering concern, not an afterthought.

Standards

We target conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. Automated accessibility checks run on every pull request and every deployment, using axe-core integrated with our Playwright end-to-end test suite. Builds fail if any “serious” or “critical” violation is detected.

What we’ve done

• Semantic HTML — proper heading hierarchy, landmark regions (<nav>, <main>, <footer>), native form labels, and meaningful link text.
• Keyboard navigation — all interactive elements are reachable and operable with the keyboard alone. Modal dialogs use a focus trap that keeps Tab navigation inside the dialog while it is open.
• ARIA roles and states — correctly applied to dialogs, accordions, tabs, and disclosure widgets, with aria-expanded and aria-controls attributes linked to the elements they describe.
• Reduced motion — we respect the operating-system prefers-reduced-motion setting. When reduced motion is requested, decorative animations are disabled and their static fall-back is shown instead.
• Color contrast — body text meets WCAG AA contrast ratios against the page background (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text and graphical components).
• Focus visibility — every focusable element shows a visible focus outline in the brand palette. The native browser outline is never disabled without an equivalent :focus-visible replacement.
• Forms — every form field has an associated label. Error messages are announced to screen readers via role=“alert” regions.
• Images — informative images carry meaningful alternative text; decorative images carry an empty alt attribute so screen readers do not read them.

Known limitations

We are honest about what is not yet ideal:

• YouTube video embeds inherit YouTube’s accessibility features and captions; we do not control the embedded player itself.
• Embedded forms hosted by Tally (the farmer-beta-tester signup) follow Tally’s accessibility implementation; we do not control it directly.
• Some marketing-section animations are subtle and disabled under reduced-motion preferences, but the static fall-back may not perfectly preserve every interactive demonstration.

If any of these limitations prevent you from using the Site, please contact us and we will help you access the information another way.

Feedback

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on this Site, or have suggestions for improvement, please email hello@maizedrones.com with the subject line “Accessibility feedback”. We aim to acknowledge accessibility reports within 2 business days and provide a substantive response within 10 business days. If the issue requires a code change, we will give you an estimated resolution date.

Compliance statement

Maize Drones is committed to providing accessible goods and services in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Accessible British Columbia Act. We continue to identify and remove accessibility barriers from our digital channels.