Accessibility

Kvidha is built so that writing a book is calmer, and that goal includes the people using it. We want the app and this site to work for authors who rely on a keyboard, a screen reader, system text scaling, reduced motion, or high-contrast settings. This page describes where we are, honestly, and how to tell us when we fall short.

The standard we aim for

We work toward the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA as our baseline for this website, and we apply the same spirit to the desktop app. We do not yet claim full conformance; it is a target we build toward and test against, not a box we have ticked.

In the desktop app

• The editor is keyboard-driven, with shortcuts for navigation, formatting, and the view controls, plus an optional Vim mode for keyboard-only editing.
• Editor zoom scales the writing surface in ten-percent steps and honors your choice across sessions, so you can set a comfortable reading size without changing the exported book.
• Light and dark themes ship in the app, and the interface follows your system appearance.
• Your work is never trapped: every book exports to standard document formats, so you can read or process a manuscript in the tool that suits you best.

On this website

• Pages use semantic landmarks and headings, so a screen reader or keyboard user can move through them in a predictable order.
• Interactive controls are reachable by keyboard and show a visible focus indicator.
• Animations, including the moving cover and the hero demo, respect the reduced-motion setting and stop when you ask your system to limit motion.
• A light and a dark theme are both available from the header.

Known limitations

The live paginated editor is a visual, spatial surface, and screen-reader support for its page view is an area we are still improving. Some decorative illustrations on this site are presented to assistive technology as images without descriptive text because they carry no information beyond their appearance. If either of these gets in the way of your work, we want to hear about it.

Tell us where we fall short

Accessibility is never finished, and the fastest way we improve is a real report from someone it affected. Email [email protected] with the page or screen, what you were trying to do, and the assistive technology you use, and we will work with you on a fix. You can also reach us through the contact page.