What we aim for

Whiptronics LLC builds this site to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2, Level AA (opens in a new tab). That is the standard we work to. We are not claiming to have achieved it everywhere: no automated test can establish that, we have not commissioned an independent audit, and the known issues below are real. We would rather tell you where we are than put a badge on the page.

How the site is built

Every fact, every phase, every moon name, every eclipse and every meteor shower is a real page at a real address with its text in the HTML. None of it is assembled by script after the fact. That is mostly an argument about search engines, and it is also the single thing that helps most here: the content is there to be read before anything runs.

What has been checked

Most recently in August 2026: automated testing with axe across the tonight page, a fact page, the calendar, the explore grid and these legal pages, which found and fixed two contrast problems — the footer line naming the company, on every page, and links inside paragraphs that were told apart from the words around them by colour alone.

Keyboard and zoom, tested rather than assumed

The settings sheet, the gear sheet and the sources sheet are real dialogue elements, so they take focus when they open, hold it while they are open, and close on Escape — all checked rather than taken on trust. Every control shows a visible focus ring. Typing a town and picking it from the list works entirely from the keyboard, and Escape closes the suggestion list without closing the sheet underneath it. Text reflows at 320 pixels wide, roughly 400% zoom on a laptop, without forcing you to scroll sideways; the calendar was the one page that did, and it no longer does. The site respects your system’s reduced-motion setting without being asked. It has one colour scheme, a dark one, on purpose: it does not switch to light if your system prefers light.

What we know is still wrong

The interactive parts of the tonight page — the readouts, the calendar and the location combobox — have had less screen-reader testing than the static pages, and are where a problem is most likely to be. The testing above is our own; it has not been reviewed by an accessibility professional and is not a substitute for one.

Charts have words beside them

The star finder’s sky chart draws the same results that the list above it gives in words: every suggestion is there with its direction, its height and when to look, and a table below covers everything the finder knows about. The finder is driven by ordinary buttons, radio buttons, text boxes and a time slider, all usable from the keyboard, and the city box is a list you move through with the arrow keys. Each star and constellation guide’s finder chart carries a written description. The sky map draws on a canvas, so the same sky is also given in words beneath it: everything above the horizon with its direction and height, and a panel that describes whatever is picked. It is driven by buttons and a list as well as by dragging, and from the keyboard (arrow keys to look, plus and minus to zoom, Enter to describe the middle of the view). The Moon is drawn as it looks, and the words say how much of it is lit and on which side. Pointing with a phone is optional: dragging, the buttons and the keyboard reach the same sky. The one piece of decoration that moves, a strike drawn across the wordmark when you come to the star pages from the Moon pages, does not play if your device asks for reduced motion.

Friends’ Skies

Adding people works from the keyboard: the town box is the same arrow-key list as the star finder’s, a pasted list is checked row by row with each problem written beside its own row, and a name shared by several towns is a set of ordinary radio buttons. Saved places are reordered with Move up and Move down buttons, not by dragging. How good a view will be is written out (Excellent, Good, Challenging) as well as styled, directions are words and degrees rather than an arrow, and additions, removals and copied messages are announced without moving your focus.

Birth charts

The chart wheel is a picture of the tables that follow it: every planet, sign, house, angle and aspect is in those tables as text, in reading order, and the wheel has a written description. Each astrology word is a button: press it to open its definition just after it, press Escape to close it and return to the word. Aspect lines differ by pattern (solid, dashed, dotted) as well as colour, every glyph has its name beside it, and anything that depends on an uncertain birth time is marked in words next to the result. Finishing a calculation is announced without moving your focus. The printout drops the page around the chart and prints on white.

While something is still working

If a calculation takes longer than a quarter of a second (the first birth chart, or the skies for a long list of places), a Moon going through its phases shows until it is done, with a short message that is announced once to screen readers; the phases themselves are not announced. While it covers the birth chart page, the page behind it cannot be used, and your focus goes back where it was when it closes. On Friends’ Skies it sits over the results and the rest of the page stays usable. If your device asks for less motion, the Moon holds still. If the work fails, the Moon goes and the page says what went wrong.

Daily astrology

Every daily reading is text in reading order: the headline is a heading, the evidence behind it is a disclosure you open with Enter or Space, and every planet symbol has its name beside it. Closing in and moving apart, and how far through its time a transit is, are written out as well as drawn, and Cosmic Weather can show everything as a table instead. Changing the day, the voice or a filter is announced without moving your focus. The archive calendar is a table of buttons, each named with its date and what happened that day, not only its symbols.

Astronomy words

Next word, Save, Show the meaning and Remove are ordinary buttons. A new word replaces the old one in place and is announced once, without moving your focus; focus moves only when a review starts or ends. The level is written out, not only coloured, and a saved word says Saved as well as filling its star. Each pronunciation is given twice: a respelling with the stressed syllable in capitals, and the IPA, both selectable and labelled for screen readers. If your device asks for less motion, the word changes without fading.

Colour is never the only signal

Where the site uses colour to mean something — gold for science and history, purple for historical beliefs, crimson for astrology and myths, a phase, a lit fraction — the same information is also in words. If you find somewhere it is not, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.

Third-party pages

Links here to NASA, Amazon, Ko-fi, Printful, the shops in the advertisement cards and other sites lead to pages we do not build or control, and we cannot make any commitment about their accessibility.

Tell us about a barrier

If something here is hard or impossible to use, please tell us — it is the fastest way for it to get fixed: coolmoonfacts@whiptronicsllc.com. It helps if you can say which page, what you were trying to do, and what you were using. If you would rather not go into detail, a one-line “the calendar is unusable with NVDA” is still worth sending. We read every one. We cannot promise a date for a fix, but we will tell you what we find.

Effective August 20, 2026. Last updated September 27, 2026.