Accessibility Statement
Last updated: September 13, 2026
We want SeeNote, a tool whose entire purpose is making dense documents easier to read, to be usable by everyone, including people who rely on assistive technology. This statement covers the seenote.co website and the SeeNote Chrome extension.
Standard we aim for
We target WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard referenced by most accessibility regulations worldwide.
What is implemented on this website
- Semantic HTML landmarks (navigation, main content, sections with labeled headings) for screen reader navigation.
- Full keyboard operability: every interactive element, including the live demo's note windows, can be reached and activated with a keyboard. The arrow keys move a demo window,
+and-zoom it,ppins it, and Escape closes it, so nothing there depends on dragging a pointer. They are the extension's own keys. - Text alternatives: decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology; meaningful controls carry accessible names via ARIA labels.
- Color contrast meeting AA ratios for body text against the dark background, and information never conveyed by color alone.
- Reduced motion: all scroll and hover animations are disabled when your system requests
prefers-reduced-motion. - Responsive layout that supports 200% zoom and reflows on small screens without horizontal scrolling.
The extension
Keyboard-first operation is a core design goal of SeeNote, not an accessibility afterthought: opening, chaining, and closing note windows works entirely from the keyboard, and windows are announced to screen readers as dialogs with focus management. Pressing ? on any filing opens a panel listing every shortcut, along with what each button in a note window's header does. Those buttons carry icons, and a tooltip hides their meaning behind a hover that most people never perform.
The notes index is a keyboard-navigable dialog: open it with S, filter or arrow-key through every note in the filing, press Enter to open one in the same window, and Escape to close, with focus returning to where you were reading. Screen readers announce it as a dialog containing a listbox of notes. When a filing has no detectable notes, the panel says so instead of showing an empty list.
Marking a filing works from the keyboard as well as the mouse. Select text however you select it, with the pointer or with Shift and the arrow keys, and the colour bar that appears is a labelled group of buttons, each named for its colour, plus one that copies the selection. The sidebar's Highlights tab is a listbox: arrow keys move through your marks, Space ticks one for the copy, and each row announces whether it is ticked. My marks, the page listing every filing you have marked, is plain headings, links and a labelled search field; the count of results is announced as it changes, and each filing's expand and remove controls carry their own names.
Printing a filing prints your marks with it and hides SeeNote's own panels, so the paper copy is the filing plus what you added and nothing else.
Known limitations
- The interactive demo reproduces authentic EDGAR filing formatting, including justified text and dense financial tables. This mirrors the real reading environment but is inherently visually dense; the demo content is also provided in the surrounding descriptive text.
- Filings themselves are third-party documents; SeeNote displays them verbatim and cannot repair accessibility deficiencies in the underlying filing.
Feedback and contact
If you encounter any barrier using this website or the extension, please tell us: hello@seenote.co (subject line "Accessibility" helps us prioritize). We aim to respond within a few business days and to fix verified barriers as quickly as possible.