Accessibility

Lake Valhalla Club racquet sports · statement prepared 10 September 2026

We are committed to making LVC Racquets accessible to everyone in the club, and we hold the draws, schedules, courts and match video to the same standard as everything else we ship. Accessibility here is a build requirement, not a cleanup pass.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. LVC Racquets conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. “Conforms” means the content meets the accessibility standard in full.

What we do

Screen readers

Pages are built from real headings, landmarks, lists and tables, and every button, link and form field carries a name — so VoiceOver and NVDA read a page in a sensible order and can jump around it. When the page changes under you, we say so in one short sentence, politely, instead of interrupting.

Keyboard

Everything works from the keyboard alone — Tab and Shift+Tab to move, Enter or Space to activate, arrow keys inside grids and tab strips, Escape to close. Nothing is mouse-only. Dialogs hold focus while they are open and hand it back to whatever opened them.

Visible focus

Whatever you are on is outlined clearly, so you never lose your place. We do not strip focus rings to tidy up a layout.

Text size and reflow

Text scales to 200% and the layout reflows down to a 320-pixel-wide screen without you having to scroll sideways to read a line. Pinch-zoom is never disabled.

Contrast and colour

Text, controls and meaningful graphics meet or beat the WCAG AA contrast ratios, measured rather than eyeballed. Nothing important is signalled by colour alone — a win, a loss, a seed, a live game, a status all carry text as well.

Motion

If you have “Reduce Motion” turned on, we honour it: animation stops, and anything that loops on its own starts paused.

Targets

Controls are large enough to hit — at least 24 by 24 pixels, or spaced so they may as well be.

Draw sheets

A tournament draw is a wide grid, and a grid is the hardest thing on any of our sites to read without sight. Ours is built as a real nested list: each match announces as one unit — round, both entries, seed, who won, the score, the court and the time — and the draw sheet scrolls from the keyboard. Byes, walkovers and undecided slots each read differently, in words. On a narrow screen it stops scrolling sideways and stacks by round.

Technical specifications

Accessibility relies on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA, and on your browser and any assistive technology working together. Where a page embeds third-party content — video hosted on YouTube, and the sign-in challenge from Cloudflare — that content is delivered by those providers under their own accessibility policies, including the captions YouTube generates. This statement covers the content we build and control. If a third-party embed is getting in your way, tell us and we will find another route to the same thing.

Compatibility

Built and checked against current Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge, with VoiceOver on macOS and iOS and with NVDA on Windows. Older browsers may work but are not checked.

Assessment approach

Self-evaluated. Every page and view is audited automatically against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 Level A and AA on each release, and the result must be zero failures before anything ships. That is backed by hand checking for the things a tool cannot see — reading order, keyboard paths, focus handling, and whether meaning survives without colour — and by measuring contrast ratios directly rather than trusting a palette.

Tell us and we will fix it

If any part of this site is hard to use with assistive technology, email [email protected]. Tell us the page, the device, and what you are using — VoiceOver, NVDA, keyboard only, zoom, larger text. We answer within two business days and we fix what we can straight away. If we cannot fix something quickly we will tell you what we are doing instead, and get you the same information another way in the meantime.

This statement was prepared on 10 September 2026 and applies to LVC Racquets. It is reviewed whenever the site changes materially.