Accessibility

What we aim for, what we have checked, and what we know is still wrong.

What we aim for

Whiptronics LLC builds this site to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2, Level AA (opens in a new tab). That is the standard we work to. We are not claiming to have achieved it everywhere: no automated test can establish that, we have not commissioned an independent audit, and the known issues below are real. We would rather tell you where we are than put a badge on the page.

Settings that may help

Settings, reached from the masthead, has three controls worth knowing about before anything else on this page: larger text, higher contrast, and a light theme alongside the default dark one. They are remembered on your device. The site also respects your system’s “reduce motion” setting and its light/dark preference without being asked.

What has been checked

Most recently in August 2026, across the home, browse, stock-up, learn, party, recipe and legal pages:

Automated testing with axe against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 Level A and AA rules, on eighteen representative pages, in both the light and the dark theme. Testing one theme turned out to be testing half the site: a clean run in dark was hiding four separate contrast failures in light. Six were found in total, ranging from 3.42:1 to 4.45:1 against a 4.5:1 requirement, and all six are fixed. These checks now run on every change rather than once.
Three of those six had the same cause worth naming: a translucency laid over text — a footer line, a button’s subtitle — which quietly undoes whatever the colour underneath was measured at. Those are gone.
A “skip to main content” link and a proper main landmark were added, so the masthead and section switcher can be bypassed rather than tabbed through on every page. The link is checked to be genuinely first in the tab order and to move focus, not merely scroll.
The drinking-age notice, which is the first thing a new visitor meets and covers the whole app, is now announced as a modal dialogue with a name, and focus moves into it. It used to be an unlabelled division that a screen reader had no reason to mention.
Every page has exactly one descriptive top-level heading, and keyboard focus is visible on every control.
Keyboard operation, tested rather than assumed. This page used to claim the site worked without a mouse before anyone had actually tried it. Trying it found three real problems, now fixed: the drinking-age notice let focus wander into the app behind it, so a keyboard user could be tabbing through 696 controls hidden under an opaque overlay; Escape did not close any sheet, only the close button or the browser’s back gesture did; and the page scrolled sideways at 400% zoom.
What the keyboard tests cover now: getting past the age notice, moving between all five sections, opening a drink and closing it again, opening Settings and changing a setting, working through a party plan, and a check that every control shows a visible focus ring when it takes focus.
Text reflows at 320 pixels wide — roughly 400% zoom on a laptop screen — without forcing you to scroll sideways to read a line.

What we know is still wrong

These are open, and listed because leaving them out would make the section above misleading:

Heading levels skip. Section headings inside the four main screens are third-level under a first-level page heading, with nothing at the second level. It does not stop anything working, but it makes the heading outline a worse map than it should be for anyone navigating by headings.
Reachable is not the same as pleasant. The tests prove every control can be reached and operated from the keyboard. They cannot tell you whether the tab order is a sensible route through the page or a long trudge, and on the busier screens it is closer to a trudge than we would like.
Honor Mode’s palette is less tested than the other two. It is chosen from a saved setting rather than from your system, so the automatic checks that cover light and dark do not reach it the same way. Its colours are checked against the palette definition, not against every screen.
No independent audit and no screen-reader certification. The testing above is our own. It has not been reviewed by an accessibility professional, and it is not a substitute for one. Automated checks catch somewhere between a third and a half of real barriers; the rest need a person, and the person so far has been us.

Third-party pages

Links here to Amazon, Ko-fi, Printful and other companies lead to sites we do not build or control, and we cannot make any commitment about their accessibility.

Tell us about a barrier

If something here is hard or impossible to use, please tell us — it is the fastest way for it to get fixed, and a report about a real barrier goes to the front of the queue. mixologybywhip@whiptronicsllc.com. It helps if you can say which page, what you were trying to do, and what you were using — browser, screen reader, magnification, keyboard only, whatever applies. If you would rather not go into detail, a one-line “the party planner is unusable with VoiceOver” is still worth sending.

We read every one. We cannot promise a date for a fix, but we will tell you what we find and whether we can do something about it.

Effective August 20, 2026. Last updated October 23, 2026.