← 1515 Buhne Street Accessibility

Everyone should be able to read this

Last reviewed 8 August 2026

The target: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. This is a small site about one house, and it is held to the same standard as a large one. Treat it as an ongoing effort rather than a finished claim — it is re-checked whenever the page or the film changes.
Structure: Real headings in order, real landmarks, and a skip link that jumps past the opening photograph straight to the story. Everything is reachable and operable by keyboard alone, and the focus outline is always visible.
The documentary: Captioned three ways, because a film gets watched in more places than the page it was published on. The player here loads a caption file. The same track is also written inside the video file itself, so it travels with the film — download it, or open it in QuickTime or VLC, and the captions are still there to switch on. And most of the narration is set on screen as part of the picture, which survives even when a platform strips everything else away. All three come from the same script the narrator read and the same timings the film was cut to, so none of them can drift out of sync with what is actually said. The full narration is published as text in the page's structured data as well.
Described audio: Both cuts carry a second audio track, marked as an audio description, that a desktop player can switch to. It runs the length of the film — the rooms as they pass, the gold mural, the green mosaic, the pool along the house — and it speaks the closing minute that is otherwise only ever type on screen: Usher's dates, the address, the size, the price, and the number to call. A different voice from the narrator's, so there is no doubt which is the film and which is the note about it, and it is written to sit in the pauses rather than over them: no description begins until the narrator has stopped.
Contrast: Every colour pair on this site was measured, not eyeballed. Where type sits over a photograph, it was measured against the brightest pixel actually behind it rather than against an average — so the number holds in the worst case, not the typical one. All text meets AA, and the photographs were not dimmed to get there.
Your settings: Light and dark are both designed, and the switch at the top of the page remembers what you chose. If your system asks for reduced motion, the drifting photograph and every transition stop. Text can be resized, respaced and reflowed to a phone width without losing content or scrolling sideways.
Images: Every photograph carries a description. Decorative marks are hidden from screen readers rather than announced as meaningless.
What is not done yet: Named rather than buried. The flythrough has no written description. It is a silent film, so there is nothing to caption; what it needs is a text account of what it shows, room by room, and that is ours to write rather than the player's to provide. It is not written yet. The audio description is a real track rather than a token one, but it is bounded by the film's own pauses — it says what fits between the narrator's lines, which is not the same as describing every frame. Of the caption routes above, the one written into the video file is found by desktop players but ignored by browsers showing a bare video, and the on-screen text stands down at the ten moments where a title card already holds the frame — so on a platform that strips caption tracks, those ten lines are carried by the card rather than word for word. And the archival film posters are images that carry their own typography. On this page each one is captioned with its title and year. In the film they are period texture rather than evidence, and three of the four are never named aloud — the narration is talking about his career, not about the poster on screen.
How it was checked: Self-assessed: contrast computed against the real rendered composites, a keyboard walkthrough, automated checks against the built page, and a review of the markup. No third-party audit has been commissioned.
Tell us: If something here is hard to read, hard to hear, or impossible to reach, say so and it gets fixed. a11y@islandpitch.com — we aim to reply within five business days. Or call (707) 845-1609, Michelle Voyles, Azalea Realty, DRE #00840334, who can also arrange to walk you through the property directly.