Accessibility

Our approach

We want WhollyKaw to work for everyone who wants to shave well. We are working toward WCAG 2.1 Level AA as our target. We are not claiming we have reached it.

Accessibility is not a box a shop ticks once. Every product we upload and every change we make to the site can introduce a new problem, so we treat it as ongoing maintenance rather than a finished job.

What we do

  • We run an automated accessibility scan across nine representative pages on the first of every month, and we keep every report.
  • We work through what those scans surface, most severe first.
  • We test the parts we build ourselves using only a keyboard before they ship.

Automated scanning finds roughly a third of accessibility problems. It catches things like missing image descriptions, low contrast text, and buttons with no label. It cannot tell us whether a page actually works well with a screen reader. That is why the contact route below matters more than any scan result.

Where we know we fall short

From our audit on 18 August 2026. We are working through these.

  • Buttons with no label. The scroll-to-top button on most pages has no text or label, so a screen reader announces it only as "button".
  • The sort dropdown on collection pages has no label of its own.
  • The search box on the search results page has no label attached to it.
  • Social share links on blog posts are icons with no text, so they are announced without saying where they go.
  • Filter menu controls on collection pages include links with no text.
  • Low contrast text in several places, most of it on blog posts and product pages.
  • Our email signup popup can be reached by keyboard while it is hidden, which means a keyboard user can land inside something they cannot see.

Some of these are quick fixes and some need theme work. We would rather list them than imply they are not there.

Something not working?

If any part of this site gets in your way, tell us and we will fix it.

Email: accessibility@whollykaw.com

Please tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened. If you use assistive software, saying which one helps us reproduce the problem. We aim to reply within two business days and to tell you either that it is fixed or what we are doing about it.

What we removed, and why

Until August 2026 this site ran a third-party accessibility overlay: a widget that loaded on every page and offered a menu of display settings.

We took it out. It was interfering with the site's own controls, clicking things on the page that nobody had clicked. Beyond that, overlays of this kind do not deliver accessibility to people who use screen readers or other assistive software, and they can get in the way of the tools those visitors already rely on.

In its place we built our own display preferences panel. You will find it in the bottom left corner of every page. It changes text size, text spacing, contrast, motion, link underlines, and adds a reading guide. It saves your choices on your own device, and it does not touch your assistive software or send anything anywhere.

Removing the widget did not make the site more accessible on its own. The work is the list above.

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026