Accessibility

The standard

WCAG 2.2 AA is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium, at the middle of its three levels. It is the standard most of the world points at when it points at anything. We build to it because a marina should be usable by the person who wants to come here, not because anybody made us.

What we measured and when

Checked on September 21, 2026, on the build that is live, at desktop and phone widths, on all eight pages. An automatic checker finds roughly half of what matters, so the rest was measured on purpose rather than assumed. These checks run again whenever the site changes, so this page is never older than the site it describes.

No critical or serious faults found by the automatic checker

axe-core 4.13.0, run against the WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 A and AA rule sets with the target-size rule switched on, which it ships switched off. Zero critical and zero serious on every page.

Every piece of text checked for contrast

The automatic checker cannot judge contrast here, because nearly every band has a faint drawing behind it and the tool will not guess what is behind text. So the real background was computed instead, layer by layer, including the drawing at its darkest. Nothing came out under the standard. Five lines sit over a photograph, and every one of them has its own solid panel behind it, measured at about 15 to 1.

Every control big enough to hit or far enough from its neighbour

The standard asks for 24 by 24 pixels, or enough space around anything smaller. Checked on all eight pages at phone width.

Keyboard order follows the page

No jumps backwards up the page between one stop and the next, and every control shows a visible ring when the keyboard reaches it.

Every jump link lands where it says

All twenty-eight of the buttons and links that jump to a part of a page were followed at both screen sizes and measured against the sticky header. Each one puts the top of the section you asked for just below the header rather than behind it. This is checked again automatically whenever the site changes.

What a screen reader is handed, read on every page

The accessibility tree is what a screen reader speaks from, and it was read in full on all eight pages. Every control has a name, every landmark and every menu is labelled, every form field has a label, headings run in order with no levels skipped, and there is one main heading per page. A person listening to it is a different test, and it is in the list below.

Readable at 320 pixels and at 130 percent text

No sideways scrolling and no text cut off on any page, at the narrowest screen the standard asks about, with the reader's own text size turned up. No text on the site is sized in a way that ignores that setting.

Motion can be stopped and stops itself if you have asked it to

The windsock on the home page is the only thing that moves on its own, and its movement is the wind reading itself. If your device is set to reduce motion, it holds still at its angle, and no text is hidden waiting for an animation that will not run.

It survives your browser's own settings

The first screen was rendered with a browser forcing dark mode and with high-contrast colours turned on. Nothing broke and nothing disappeared.

Safari, not only Chrome

Every page was loaded in Safari's engine at phone and desktop size. Every page held its width, stayed free of errors, and ran the parts that need JavaScript: the windsock, the photo viewer and its Escape key, the form, and the phone menu. Testing it turned up a real fault, since fixed, where a reading could change a moment after the page had loaded.

The plain things on every page

One main heading per page, headings in order with no levels skipped, a description on every photograph that carries meaning, decorative marks hidden from screen readers, the language set, and pinch zoom never disabled.

What we have not tested

This is the part most statements leave out, and it is the part worth reading.

• Nobody has listened to it. Everything a screen reader is handed has been read and checked, which is in the list above, and that is not the same as somebody sitting down and listening to every page with one. Reading order, how much it says, and whether it is a pleasure or a chore are things you only learn by listening. Until somebody has, we are not going to say it reads well.
• We have not tested it with voice control or a switch. Everything here is a real button or a real link with a visible name, which is what those need, but we have not sat down with either one.
• The printed sheets are paper. The rate sheet and the float plan are made to be printed and carried, and paper helps nobody who cannot read it. Every fact on both sheets is also on the page in text, and the phone number gets you a person who will read any of it to you.
• The view of the marina from above is a photograph. Its description says what is in it, and the same layout is written out in words in the moorage section beside it.

If something here is in your way

Tell us and we will fix it. We would much rather hear it than not, and you do not need to explain the standard or use the right words for it. Saying what you were trying to do and what happened is plenty.

Call 250-365-3267 during store hours, or email store@scottiesmarina.com. One of us reads it. If what you need is on the site and you cannot get at it, ask us on the phone and we will just tell you: the prices, the dates, the directions and the numbers are all things we can say out loud.

Who built it

The site was built by Kootenay Made Digital, and the measurements above are theirs to stand behind. If you would rather raise something with them directly than with us, that is fine too.

What we do with anything you send is on privacy. The rules for using the site are on terms.

Last checked September 21, 2026. We check again whenever the site changes.