In short
- We want everyone to be able to use Takehome's calculators and documentation, including people who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, zoom or reduced motion.
- Automated testing on 22 October 2026 found no accessibility violations on any page of the site, at phone (375 px) and desktop (1,366 px) widths, in light and dark mode.
- Automated tests cannot find every barrier, and we have not had a formal manual audit. If something does not work for you, tell us: developwith.gt@gmail.com.
1. Our goal
We aim for the website to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. We do not claim formal conformance, because conformance can only be established by a full manual evaluation, which we have not done.
Takehome is run by one person with no employees. Ontario's website accessibility requirement applies to designated public sector organizations and to businesses and non-profits with 50 or more employees, so it does not apply to Takehome. We follow these practices voluntarily.
2. What we tested and what we found
On 22 October 2026, before release of this version of the site:
- axe-core 4.13.0, run in Chromium on every page of the built site plus a missing-page check (246 addresses, including the legal pages), at 375 px and 1,366 px wide, in both light and dark colour schemes, with the site's self-hosted fonts: 0 violations of any severity in 984 page audits. Calculator pages were tested after the calculator had produced a result. The same run found no sideways scrolling, no console errors and no requests to other domains.
- Automated test suite: the site's test suite, which runs in continuous integration, checks 22 representative pages with axe-core at both widths and both colour schemes and fails on any serious or critical violation.
- Lighthouse accessibility score of 100 on the home page, the Ontario calculator, the documentation, the quick start, the conformance record, pricing and signup (three runs each).
These results apply to the version of the site tested on that date. We re-run the checks when the design changes.
3. Features that support accessibility
- A "Skip to content" link at the top of every page.
- Page language declared as English.
- Every calculator field has a visible text label.
- The calculator result area is announced to screen readers when it changes (a polite live region), and the preview-rules warning is marked as a status message.
- The animated net pay figure is not animated when your device asks for reduced motion.
- Light and dark colour schemes follow your device setting.
- Pages reflow at narrow widths without sideways scrolling.
- Tables use header cells so screen readers can announce rows and columns.
4. Known limitations
- No manual audit yet. We have not tested with a full range of screen readers and assistive technologies, or with users with disabilities.
- English only. The site is not available in French or other languages.
- The embed widget runs inside other websites. We test it on our own Embed page; its accessibility on another site also depends on that site.
- Formulas and factor tables use CRA symbols (for example K2P or T4) that can be hard to follow. Each symbol has a plain-language definition beside it.
- Third-party pages we link to, such as CRA pages and GitHub, are outside our control.
5. Tell us about a barrier
Email developwith.gt@gmail.com with the page address, what you were trying to do, and the device, browser and assistive technology you use. We aim to reply within five business days. If you need information from the site in another format, ask and we will provide it in a format that works for you where we reasonably can.
6. Contact
Gautam Khosla, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. developwith.gt@gmail.com.