Accessibility

What the site does

• A “Skip to content” link is the first thing on every page, for keyboard and screen reader users.
• Every photograph has a text description, and every diagram has a title and a description that a screen reader can read.
• Colour is never the only sign of anything. Where the bomb's ochre and the plane's blue mark a journey, the words say which too.
• Pages follow your device's light or dark setting, and the button at the top of each page switches between them.
• Text can be enlarged to twice its size, and pages work at widths down to 360 pixels. Wide tables scroll sideways on their own, without moving the page.
• Movement is kept to a minimum, and turned off if your device asks for reduced motion.
• Every page can be read without JavaScript. Without it the light and dark button and the filters are hidden, search cannot run, and a footnote number takes you to the folded list of sources rather than opening it.

How it is checked

Before a page is published it is checked with axe, an automated accessibility checker, in both light and dark and at phone and desktop widths, and with Lighthouse. The build itself refuses a page with an image that has no description or a diagram without a title.

Automated checks find many problems but not all of them. If something gets in your way, please say so.

What is not yet as good as it should be

• Many photographs are scans of prints from 1945, and some are dark or soft. Their descriptions say what they show.
• Most pages link to their sources: museums, archives and government sites. Those sites are not run from here, and some of their documents are scanned PDFs that a screen reader cannot read.

Tell us about a problem

If you find something on this site hard to use, or need a page in a different form, write to hello@tinian1945.com. Please say which page, and what you were trying to do.

Changes

This statement was written on 13 October 2026 and is reviewed whenever the site changes in a way that could affect it.