Where it stands
We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, the standard the European accessibility rules and AgID's guidelines for Italian public bodies are built on. We believe the site is partially conformant: every page passes the automated checks below, and the parts a machine cannot judge still need testing by people.
How it was checked, on 29 September 2026
- Every page was run through axe-core, the open-source checker used by most accessibility teams, against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 at levels A and AA, in the light theme, and the main pages in the dark theme too. Everything it found has been fixed.
- Colour contrast is checked in both themes, with every animation stopped, so that what is measured is what you read. Small coloured text uses the darker version of each colour.
- Lighthouse, Google's page audit, scores the main pages between 98 and 100 for accessibility.
- Motion: with “reduce motion” switched on in your device settings, nothing on the site slides, counts or loops. The one board that flips by itself holds still when you point at it, and has a pause button.
What does not work well yet
- A full keyboard and screen-reader pass by a person has not been done yet. It is on our list for October, with VoiceOver and TalkBack.
- The map is a visual map. Everything on it is also in the list beside it, which works with a keyboard and a screen reader.
- The Chowk board's scattered view lets notes overlap. The “In order” view shows the same notes as a plain list.
- Pronunciation uses your browser's own Italian voice, so it depends on your device. Every word also has a written pronunciation guide.
- Official documents we link to (university PDFs, government forms) are not ours, and some are scanned images.
Tell us when something gets in your way
If a page does not work with the way you read or move through it, we want to know: which page, what you were trying to do, and what you use (a screen reader, keyboard only, zoom). Use the report form or write to support@unichowk.com. Accessibility problems are fixed before anything else on the list.
The budgets we hold every page to, for accessibility and for speed, are recorded with the last results in the project's quality notes. The public record of what changed on the site is on What changed.