Accessibility statement

Verheim's accessibility posture — WCAG 2.2 AA scope, audit approach, known limitations, feedback channel, named contact, date of last assessment.

Last updated: April 26, 2026

DRAFT — pending external legal counsel review and pre-launch manual AT audit. This accessibility statement is published in DRAFT form. The conformance declaration text, the known-limitations completeness, the feedback-channel routing, and the named-contact attribution are pending external legal counsel review per the pre-launch legal- review launch-gate AND the pre-launch manual assistive-technology audit by an accessibility auditor per NFR-Ac1. Provisional values reflect the single-source legal-entity profile in src/config/company.ts for the named-contact attribution with placeholder-tolerant rendering pending real-value backfill; the accessibility@verheim.com feedback- channel mailbox provisioning is pending operator-bound routing.

Visitors reading this page in DRAFT form may rely on it as Verheim's current accessibility posture. The DRAFT marker signals that the disclosure text may be tightened — never relaxed: pre- counsel-review and pre-audit, the published statement is the stricter posture, the version visitors can rely on.

Scope of compliance

This accessibility statement applies to all public pages on verheim.com. At the date of last assessment, the in-scope public pages are:

The SAGA application user interface, when shipped post-Epic-7, is out-of-scope for this statement. This statement is verheim.com- scoped; a separate accessibility statement governs the SAGA application surface when it ships.

Conformance target

Verheim aims for full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance on all in-scope pages. Conformance is measured against the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium. The full standard may be reviewed at WCAG 2.2 specification (opens in a new tab) .

Approach to conformance

Verheim takes a dual approach to assessing conformance against WCAG 2.2 AA.

Automated audit on every build. An axe-core scan runs in continuous integration on every change to verheim.com, with a strict gate that blocks any change introducing a moderate, serious, or critical accessibility violation. Automated tooling catches approximately 30% of accessibility issues by industry consensus; the remaining issues require manual assistive-technology review.

Manual assistive-technology audit, pre-launch and annually. An accessibility auditor reviews the primary page templates against WCAG 2.2 AA using assistive technology — the canonical scenario is a screen-reader user navigating Verheim with NVDA on Firefox for Windows. The pre-launch manual audit is a named launch-gate; subsequent re-reviews run at least annually regardless of changes, per NFR-Ac3 and NFR-R3.

Known limitations

Verheim discloses the following accessibility limitations honestly, with no hiding.

The pre-launch manual assistive-technology audit has not yet run. Automated axe-core scans are active and pass the strict gate, but only manual screen-reader review surfaces the remaining approximately 70% of issues that automated tooling cannot detect. The manual audit is operator-bound and is named as a launch-gate; this statement updates within 30 days of the audit's completion, with any audit-surfaced limitations enumerated alongside.

Tiempos Headline Fallback typography. Editorial headings on verheim.com currently render in Georgia, aliased as "Tiempos Headline Fallback", until the commercial license and woff2 procurement for Tiempos Headline conclude. Georgia at heading sizes meets WCAG 2.2 AA color-contrast and readability requirements — the limitation is a typographic-fidelity disclosure, not an accessibility barrier — but it is included here for editorial honesty.

This statement is updated within 30 days of any newly-identified limitation per NFR-Ac3.

Feedback mechanism

Visitors who encounter an accessibility issue on verheim.com — or who have a question about Verheim's accessibility posture — may write to accessibility@verheim.com. Feedback is routed directly to Verheim's founder (named in the section below) under solo-founder posture; this is not a sink inbox.

Verheim aims to acknowledge accessibility feedback within five business days of receipt. Substantive resolution timing depends on the issue's complexity; visitors are kept informed of progress on individually-reported issues.

Named contact

[Named contact pending Story 2.11 D032 close — founder.legalName backfill; the role is held by Verheim's founder at solo-founder posture.] Full legal-entity owner attribution is published in the imprint.

Date of last assessment

This statement was last assessed on April 26, 2026. The statement is updated within 30 days of any material change — a new public page type, a material design-system revision, an assistive- technology testing-scope change, or a newly-identified limitation — per NFR-Ac3, and is re-reviewed at least annually regardless of changes per NFR-Ac3 and NFR-R3.