Accessibility

• Contrast. Every text and background pair on the site comes from a fixed palette, and each pair was measured against the WCAG ratios (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text and for boundaries that carry meaning) before it was allowed into the design system. Colors that only pass on a dark background are not permitted as text on a light one. The tool's result tiles use the same measured pairs.
• Tap targets. Buttons, links in navigation, form controls and the choice tiles in the plea tool are at least 44 by 44 pixels. Most of the people reading this site are on a phone, sometimes in a courthouse hallway, sometimes one-handed.
• Keyboard navigation. Everything you can do with a mouse you can do with a keyboard: the menu, the language selector, the forms, every link. Focus indicators are visible, not suppressed.
• The plea tool is keyboard operable. Every step of the tool is made of ordinary form controls: radio buttons for the offense category, the sentence and your status, text fields for dates and amounts, a button to add a prior and a button to copy the summary. You can move through it with Tab and the arrow keys and run it with Enter or Space. No step requires a mouse, a hover, or a drag.
• Results are announced. The tool's result area is a live region. When you change an answer and the result changes, a screen reader announces the new result without you having to hunt for it, and the copy button confirms in the same way that the summary was copied.
• Skip link. A "Skip to content" link is the first thing in the tab order on every page, so you are not walked through the whole menu on each new page.
• Headings. One H1 per page, and headings below it nest in order without skipping levels. Headings describe the section rather than decorate it, so heading-by-heading navigation in a screen reader actually gets you somewhere.
• Images. Images that carry information have alt text that says what they show. Images that are purely decorative are marked so assistive technology skips them instead of reading a filename aloud.
• Motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, the site respects it and animations do not run. The home page has a short, silent video behind its opening photograph and a faint one behind one dark section; neither carries information, and neither loads when your device asks for reduced motion or reduced data. There are no carousels that move on their own, no countdown timers, and nothing that flashes.
• No horizontal scrolling. Pages, including the tool, are verified at 375 pixels wide, which is a common phone width. Content reflows instead of forcing you to scroll sideways to read a sentence.
• Tables. On phones, tables reflow into stacked, labeled cards. On larger screens, wide tables scroll inside their own container if they need to, rather than pushing the whole page sideways. They are reachable by keyboard, and they keep real table headers so a screen reader can announce which column a cell belongs to.
• Color is never the only signal. The tool's result tiles say "triggers," "depends" or "does not trigger" in words, not only in color, and the status badges carry their label in text.

What we will do about it

We aim to acknowledge an accessibility report within two business days and to tell you what we found and when we can fix it. If a fix will take time, we will say so, and we will get you the information you were after by another route in the meantime: by phone, by email, or in a different format. Everything the tool does, an attorney can do with you on the phone.

You never have to use this website to become a client or to get an answer. Everything here is also available by calling (718) 484-7510 and talking to a person.

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