Accessibility

Drry is built so that everyone can use it, including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard instead of a mouse, magnification, captions or reduced motion. That covers this website, the console coaches use to run their community, the member pages their members use, our iPhone apps and Drry Video.

We work to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. We have not yet had an independent audit, so we do not claim full conformance. The section below lists what we know falls short today.

• Most pages have a "Skip to content" link. Pages have real headings and landmarks and work with a keyboard alone. Keyboard focus is shown with a visible ring.
• Text colours are checked against the background they sit on. When a coach picks brand colours, Drry adjusts the shades used for text on a plain background so they stay readable.
• Course lessons, recordings and uploaded video and audio get captions automatically, and members can turn them on in the player. Videos never autoplay with sound.
• Live calls and webinars have live captions. Anyone can turn them on with the Captions button in a call, on a webinar’s watch page, in our iPhone apps and in Drry Video, and on the web before joining too. The choice is remembered on that device. Each line shows who is speaking and appears a moment after it is said. A coach cannot turn captions off. Recordings are captioned once the session ends.
• Forms have labels, say which fields are required, and read errors out to screen readers.
• Motion is kept small and stops entirely when your device asks for reduced motion. The animated demos on this website can also be stopped with "Pause animations" at the bottom of every page.
• Our iPhone apps label their controls for VoiceOver and respect Reduce Motion. Drry Video has keyboard shortcuts for mute, camera, raise hand and leave.

We are working on these:

• Live captions are written by machine and in English only, so names and terms can come out wrong, and each phrase appears a moment after it is said.
• When someone speaks from one of our iPhone apps, their words are captioned only while a host or admin of the call is on a computer.
• Screen readers do not announce live captions as they arrive, there is no captions history to read back yet, and caption size cannot be changed yet.
• Live captions are not shown in Drry Video’s floating faces strip.
• In an automation, a step that is already in the journey can only be moved by dragging (adding one is a click).
• Text a coach places over a photo or video is not checked for contrast.

Each community on Drry is run by its coach, who writes its posts, courses, pages and emails. Drry gives coaches the tools to publish accessible content: a description field for images in posts, messages, lessons and pages, automatic captions on hosted video, colour adjustment for readable text, and a page score that flags missing image descriptions and hard to read colours.

The coach is responsible for the content they publish, including writing image descriptions and checking captions. Custom code a coach adds to a page runs as they wrote it, and its accessibility is the coach's responsibility.

If something in a community is hard to use, tell the coach who runs it. If the problem is with Drry itself, or the coach cannot fix it, tell us.

Email hello@drry.com with "Accessibility" in the subject. Tell us the page or screen, what you were trying to do, and the assistive technology you use, if any. We will reply within five business days and, where we can, help you get what you need another way while we fix it.