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Accessibility conformance

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DRAFT NOTICEThis page states the accessibility conformance target Dohos's internal accessibility and effective-communication policy sets, and how that target is tested. It is not a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, a conformance certification, or evidence that any specific page or call flow currently meets the target — automated scanning and internal review are not, on their own, sufficient to claim conformance, and nothing below should be read as such a claim.

01The conformance target

Dohos's accessibility policy sets WCAG 2.2 Level AA as its engineering and design target across the public site, the operator console, and the AI voice channel — not WCAG 2.0 or 2.1, and not Level A or AAA. That target applies to every surface the policy covers: public pages, the restaurant account and administrative interface, AI-assisted voice interactions, SMS and email notices, the payment-routing steps Dohos controls, and downloadable legal and support documents.

In concrete terms, the target requires:

  • keyboard operation without traps, with visible and logical focus order
  • sufficient text and non-text contrast, with support for resizing, reflow, zoom, and spacing
  • meaningful alternative text and captions or transcripts where media is used
  • controls that don't rely on color, sound, motion, or position alone to carry meaning
  • status messages and errors exposed to assistive technology, not just shown visually
  • understandable language and navigation that stays consistent from page to page
  • accessible authentication and account recovery
  • motion, flashing, and auto-updating content that a person can control or turn off

02A target, not a certification

Dohos's own policy is explicit that a technical target does not by itself decide legal compliance, which depends on the actual context a specific claim is made in — and it is equally explicit that automated scanning alone cannot establish conformance, and that an accessibility overlay is not a substitute for accessible code or a basis to claim compliance. Both of those are stated here because they are exactly the kind of claim a page like this one is tempted to make and shouldn't.

03How the target gets tested

The policy's design-and-development lifecycle requires accessibility acceptance criteria defined at design time, not bolted on afterward, and both automated and manual testing of complete workflows — not only individual components in isolation. Where practicable, testing includes people with a range of disabilities and assistive technologies directly, with consent and privacy safeguards, rather than relying solely on internal review.

  • accessibility acceptance criteria are part of a feature's design, not a post-launch checklist
  • both components and complete end-to-end workflows are tested, automatically and manually
  • release changes are checked for accessibility regressions before they ship, not after a complaint arrives
  • each known issue is tracked with a severity, an owner, a workaround where one exists, and a retest once it's fixed

04The VPAT

A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is a real, produced document — the output of an actual conformance evaluation against a named standard, typically performed or reviewed by an independent party. Dohos has not completed one.

PLACEHOLDER — A completed VPAT or equivalent Accessibility Conformance Report, evaluated against WCAG 2.2 Level AA. None exists yet — described here rather than left unaddressed, because a compliance page that goes silent on the one document a reviewer is most likely to ask for by name is a worse answer than stating plainly that it doesn't exist.
NOTEInternal design review covers focus order, contrast, and labelling today. That is not the same evidence a VPAT represents, and this page does not present it as equivalent.

05The voice channel specifically

The accessibility statement covers voice-channel accessibility as part of its full commitment — pacing, repetition, correction, and a human fallback. What that page states as a target, Dohos's internal policy requires to actually be tested: speech-recognition performance across accent, disability, noise, and assistive-technology use is expected to trigger a clarification and a fallback rather than a fabricated best guess at what was said, and recording is explicitly not a precondition for receiving an accommodation — a caller does not have to consent to being recorded in order to get help.

07Reporting a barrier

An accessibility barrier found on the site, in the operator console, or on a call is treated as a real defect with an owner and a fix, not a comment for a future release. Report one through support today; it is routed and tracked the same way any other reported defect is.

PLACEHOLDER — A dedicated, staffed accessibility contact separate from general support. None exists yet.