Accessibility Statement

Conformance target

Liquid Mercury targets conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA across liquidmercury.com. WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard referenced by the European Accessibility Act (EAA, in effect June 2025), Section 508 in the United States, and institutional procurement expectations globally.

We audit the site against this standard on an ongoing basis. The public site is the primary scope; product surfaces delivered under enterprise agreements are covered by product-specific accessibility documentation available on request.

Measures we take

• Accessibility is included as an explicit consideration in every feature PR. Our continuous integration pipeline runs ESLint with the jsx-a11y rule set, which catches common violations at build time.
• Automated axe-core accessibility scans run on every pull request via Playwright against representative routes across the public site. Pull requests fail on any Critical or Serious WCAG 2.1 AA violation.
• We honor the prefers-reduced-motion media query across the site. Ambient animations are disabled for users who have requested reduced motion at the operating system level.
• A skip-to-main-content link is the first focusable element on every page, allowing keyboard and screen reader users to bypass the header navigation.
• Interactive elements expose appropriate ARIA semantics. Icon buttons are wrapped in our A11yIcon primitive, which enforces decorative aria-hidden or labelled treatment at the component level.
• Focus indicators are visible on all interactive elements with a minimum 3:1 contrast ratio against adjacent background color.

Known limitations

We are aware of the following limitations and are working to address them:

• Third-party embedded content. The Saliba Signal newsletter archive at /resources/the-saliba-signal mirrors HTML authored in a third-party newsletter platform. We apply our own dark-theme typography to this content but have limited control over the source markup.
• Animated hero elements. Hero sections include subtle orbital animations. These respect prefers-reduced-motion and are marked decorative, but users without a reduced-motion preference cannot currently pause them explicitly on a per-component basis.

When we identify an issue that materially affects usability, we prioritize it for the next feature sprint rather than the general accessibility backlog.

Testing methodology

Our accessibility program combines automated and manual testing:

• Automated: ESLint jsx-a11y plugin on every build; Playwright + axe-core scans on every pull request, gating merges on Critical and Serious violations.
• Manual: keyboard-only navigation audits on major release branches; color contrast audits against WCAG 4.5:1 minimum for body text and 3:1 minimum for non-text UI.
• Tooling: axe-core, Lighthouse, WAVE, and manual VoiceOver / NVDA validation for critical flows.

Feedback and contact

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on liquidmercury.com, please let us know. We aim to respond to accessibility reports within five business days.

Email: sales@liquidmercury.com

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