Site Notes
This is a working accessibility note, not a completed audit. It records what the site is trying to support now and where future improvements should be tracked.
The core experience is the content: history, recipes, facts, celebration ideas, sources, and creator notes. Those pages should be readable, responsive, and structured with headings, landmarks, lists, links, and plain text that do not depend on visual decoration.
The top navigation and footer links should work predictably with a mouse, keyboard, or touch. Link text should describe where it goes, and page layouts should not overlap or hide content on small screens.
The footer feedback form opens in a dialog, moves focus into the form, can be closed with Escape or the close button, and returns focus to the feedback trigger. The form should keep labels, status messages, and validation clear.
The Work With Julie page includes a separate employment-opportunity form with visible labels, required fields, a status message, and keyboard-friendly form controls. It should stay distinct from general site feedback.
Corn on the Cob Day uses small transitions, hover responses, a live countdown, and playful visual treatments. Motion can be part of the site's character, but reduced-motion preferences should be respected and the site should still make sense when motion is reduced.
The homepage countdown is a live seasonal feature, but the important information is also available as text: Corn on the Cob Day is observed on June 11. During the full local June 11, the countdown becomes a textual celebration state with links and a three-step protocol that does not depend on animation.
Kernel Defender is bonus play, not the only way to participate in the site. Its focused accessibility pass added canvas-scoped keyboard input, native start and pause controls, a text scoreboard, and restrained status announcements. It remains a fast visual keyboard arcade game rather than an equivalent nonvisual or touch-first experience.
Corn Myth Court uses native buttons with visible focus and pressed states. Visitors can reveal every sourced ruling without a timer, animation, pointer gesture, or requirement to earn a particular score. The completed record receives focus, exposes its earned title as text, and provides native share and copy actions with a polite status message.
The cob disposition tool uses native buttons with visible focus and pressed states. Every recommendation and completed-service certificate is rendered as text, works without a timer or pointer gesture, and does not require motion to understand. The certificate uses the browser’s standard print dialog.
If something is hard to read, hard to use, or unpleasant to navigate, the feedback link in the footer is the best current way to report it.