Until 5 August 2026, all nine fields on our lost and found form were invisible to screen readers. The labels were right there on screen — City, Area, Date last seen, Phone — but none of them was joined to its input, so assistive technology announced nine blank boxes with no clue what went in them. Anyone reporting a missing dog that way was stuck. We found it and fixed it the same day.
That is the honest version of where we are. This page tells you what works, what does not, and how to tell us when we have got it wrong.
Conformance status
Dog with Blog partially conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. “Partially conforms” is the formal way of saying most of the site meets the standard and some of it does not. We are not going to claim full conformance we have not paid an auditor to verify.
We are a small volunteer team that rehomes street animals. Accessibility here is not a compliance exercise and it is not a search-ranking tactic. Someone looking for a lost dog at two in the morning should be able to use this site whatever their eyesight, hearing, or hands are doing.
How we tested, and when
Last assessed on 5 August 2026, by our own team rather than an external auditor. We ran programmatic checks across ten representative pages — the homepage, the adoption directory, a city archive, an individual adoption listing, the lost and found page, two long-form articles and the three policy pages — plus manual keyboard and contrast checks. No third-party accessibility overlay is installed on this site, and we do not intend to install one.
What works today
Measured, not assumed:
- Image alt text: complete. Across the ten pages sampled, every one of roughly 100 images carried an alt attribute. Zero missing.
- Text contrast: 15.8:1 for body copy against its background, against a WCAG AA minimum of 4.5:1.
- One h1 per page, headings in order. Checked on every page sampled.
- A skip-to-content link on every page, reachable with the first press of the Tab key.
- Form fields are labelled and keyboard reachable, including the lost and found report form.
- The site reflows to phone width without horizontal scrolling, which is how most of our readers arrive.
What is still broken
Listing these is the point of the page. A statement with no known issues is a statement nobody checked.
- The homepage has no main landmark. Every other page type does. The skip-to-content link still works there, so the practical cost is small, but the region is not announced as the main region. On our list, not yet done.
- Embedded Reddit content on the lost and found page renders inside a third-party widget whose accessibility we do not control.
- Older posts vary. The site has run since 2011. Alt text exists everywhere, but on some archive posts it is thin, and a few older tables were built for sighted reading.
- Adoption listings come from the community. Rescuers upload their own photographs, and we write the alt text afterwards. There is a lag.
- No external audit. Everything above is our own testing. We would rather say so than imply a certification we do not hold.
Recently fixed
- 5 August 2026 — all nine fields on the lost and found form given programmatic labels. They displayed correctly on screen but were invisible to assistive technology.
- 5 August 2026 — the privacy policy had no h1 and opened at heading level two, breaking the outline for anyone browsing by headings.
- 26 July 2026 — text typed into the lost and found form rendered white on white, contrast 1.0. The fields looked permanently empty. It had been that way since launch.
Technical notes
Accessibility here relies on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA, and assumes a current browser with JavaScript enabled. The lost and found form and the adoption filters need JavaScript to work. Everything else, including every article and every adoption listing, is readable without it.
Tell us what is broken
Email cat@dogwithblog.in. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what your browser or assistive technology did instead. Any level of detail helps; “the adoption form does nothing on VoiceOver” is a perfectly good bug report.
We reply within three to five working days. If something blocks you from reporting a lost animal or reaching a rescuer, say so and we will treat it as urgent, because it is.
If we do not respond, or the answer does not fix it, tell us again and say it is a second attempt. We would rather be chased than let it sit.
Related pages
See our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, and who we are. If you came here trying to report a missing animal, the lost and found page is what you want.
Last updated: 5 August 2026. Last assessed: 5 August 2026.