Accessibility

How the website is tested

The checks below run as scripts against the built site in a real browser.

• axe-core runs on every built page with its WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 A and AA rules and its best-practice rules. The site opens in dark appearance whatever the Mac uses and remembers a light choice made with its toggle, so each page is checked at 1280 and 390 pixels wide in dark, with the Mac set to light and to dark, and in light and dark chosen with the toggle. A page that opens light with nothing chosen fails, as does any violation.
• A keyboard-only walk checks that the first Tab stop is a skip link that moves focus past the header; that the appearance toggle, the FAQ answers and the offer bar’s close button work with Enter and Space; that pricing buttons are tab stops with names; that the footer’s Back to top link returns focus to the top of the page; and that form fields are labelled and reachable. On a phone-sized screen it checks that the menu opens with Enter, keeps Tab and Shift-Tab inside it, and closes with Escape, handing focus back to the menu button.
• With Reduce Motion on, the home page’s hero, feature grid, map and globe and the features page must hold still: two screenshots taken a second apart have to match. Sections that rise into view and the crossfade between light and dark are skipped too.
• With nothing chosen, each page has to look the same on a Mac set to dark as on one set to light, and a light choice made with the toggle has to look the same whatever the Mac uses.

Automated checks find only some problems, so a passing run doesn’t mean every page works for everyone.

In the app

• VoiceOver announces each connection alert, and an optional sound can play when one appears.
• The traffic charts work from the keyboard (arrow keys and Escape) and with VoiceOver: adjust to move through time, and use the actions to select from a point to now or clear the selection. The Network Monitor chart’s actions filter to the visible period, clear the selection or return to now.
• In Control Center, VoiceOver and the keyboard can move, resize and remove widgets.
• An option in Settings › Alerts makes alerts the key window, so Return, Esc and ⌘1 to ⌘4 answer them. It’s off by default, so an alert never takes the keyboard from what you’re typing.
• Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast are respected across the map, globe and floating panels. With Reduce Motion on, the app’s animations crossfade or snap instead of moving.
• The window uses the Mac’s own backgrounds, sidebar and colours.

These come from the release notes in the changelog, where you can see when each one arrived.

Report a barrier

If something on this site or in the app doesn’t work for you, email support@outboundfirewall.com. Say which page or window it was, what you were trying to do and what assistive technology you use, if any. If you can’t get information you need from a page, we’ll try to provide it another way.

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