The Garden Institute

Accessibility

There should be a usable Garden for every reader.

The Institute is designed for people with different levels of technical confidence, literacy, mobility, vision, hearing, attention, language, and access to devices.

A small seed sending clear rings outward

Reading

This site uses high-contrast text, scalable type, generous spacing, a light-only surface, and no essential information embedded only in colour. Use the Larger text control in the header to increase the base text size. Browser zoom remains fully supported.

Pages use semantic headings, skip links, keyboard-accessible controls, visible focus states, conventional links, descriptive labels, and non-spatial alternatives. No public reader requires an account.

Motion

Motion is limited to short entry transitions that communicate focus. There is no perpetual decorative animation. Reduced-motion preferences disable the transitions without removing information.

Participation without technology

A Garden can begin through conversation, paper, print, a walk-through, objects, photographs, assisted review, or a trusted intermediary. The participant does not need to operate the archive or learn specialist terminology.

Human support

Accessibility requirements should be named at the beginning of a Garden and revisited as the work changes. Contact hello@thegarden.institute to request a printed, large-text, plain-language, or assisted version of any public material.

Known limitation: this release provides English-language public pages. The content model supports future translated and alternative-format projections, but those versions require human review rather than automatic publication.