Accessibility

Last updated 30 August 2026

BeeLeaf is meant to be usable by everyone, including people who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, need larger text, or cannot rely on colour to tell things apart. This page says what we hold ourselves to, what we have actually checked, and what we know still falls short.

The standard we work to

We target WCAG 2.1 Level AA across both the website and the dashboard. That is the standard the Department of Justice adopted in its 2024 rule and the one courts have consistently referred to in claims brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What that means in practice

• Keyboard. Everything you can do with a mouse you can do with a keyboard. Every page starts with a “Skip to content” link, focus is always visible, dialogs move focus to themselves, close on Escape, and return focus where it came from.
• Screen readers. Buttons, checkboxes and form fields are named and announce their state. Task and list checkboxes report whether they are ticked, rather than relying on a filled circle.
• Contrast. Text meets at least 4.5:1 against its background (3:1 for large text) in every one of the six themes, on both the Personal and Business sides.
• Zoom and reflow. Pages work down to a 320 pixel-wide window — the equivalent of 400% zoom on a laptop — without scrolling sideways, and they hold up when you override line height and letter spacing.
• Motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, the animations on the site stop. Nothing important is ever hidden behind an animation finishing.
• Colour. Colour is never the only way something is communicated.

How we check

Every public page and the dashboard — in each view, on both the Personal and Business sides, and in all six themes — are tested with axe-core against the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules, alongside manual keyboard and reflow testing. Automated testing catches perhaps a third of what matters, so it is a floor and not a certificate.

Known gaps

• BeeLeaf has not yet been tested end to end with JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver by someone who uses them daily. That is the most valuable thing still missing and it is on the list.
• The month calendar and the week strip are grids. They are keyboard reachable, but they are laid out in two dimensions and cannot fully collapse into a single column on a very narrow screen.
• Ask AI writes its answers with a third-party model. We control how the answer is presented; we do not control the wording it returns.
• No formal third-party audit has been carried out.

Tell us when something does not work

If any part of BeeLeaf is difficult or impossible for you to use, email support@BeeLeaf.app. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what you use to browse — a screen reader, keyboard only, magnification, whatever it is. We aim to reply within five working days, and we will tell you either when it is fixed or why it will take longer.

If you need something in BeeLeaf and cannot get to it, say so in that email and we will help you get it another way while the fix is in progress.