WCAG 2.2 AA Audit · 2026-08-19

intelligencevc.com

All 10 pages swept with axe-core at 1440px and 390px (full WCAG 2.0–2.2 A/AA tag set), plus a manual layer: keyboard, reflow, reduced motion, target size, focus visibility.

NOT AA

Six Level A/AA failure classes, every page affected. The build is otherwise solid — failures are systematic, so fixes land in shared CSS and partials. Roughly one day of work.

Findings, severity order

Reduced motion strands whole sections invisible

critical

With prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, the .reveal entrance animation never fires and content stays at opacity:0. Measured: four full sections on /accelerator/, every news card on /news/, a portfolio card, the "Four verticals" section on /thesis/. A motion-sensitive visitor gets blank pages.

Fix: when the media query matches, reveal immediately — .reveal{opacity:1;transform:none} under @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce).

Color contrast — 85 failing nodes, 3 patterns

1.4.3 AA

Pattern	Ratio	Needs	Where
Footer links `#3a3b3a` on `#0a0b0a`	1.75:1	4.5:1	Every page
Teal `#00cba7` text on light bg	1.98:1	4.5:1	Labels, section numbers, news CTAs
Gray `#828381` on `#fafaf8`	3.64:1	4.5:1	News card body text

Fix: token-level. Keep #00cba7 for decorative rules; teal text on light grounds needs a darker variant (≈#007a64). Footer links to ≈#9a9b9a.

Logo links have no accessible name

2.4.4 / 4.1.2 A

Nav and footer logos wrap an inline SVG wordmark with no aria-label. Screen readers announce an unnamed link twice per page, site-wide.

Fix: aria-label="Intelligence Ventures — home" on both anchors in the shared partial.

Touch targets under 24px

2.5.8 AA

Nav links measure 16px tall, footer links 17px, team profile links 18px. Minimum is 24px.

Fix: display:inline-block + vertical padding on nav/footer a in shared CSS.

No skip link

2.4.1 A

First tab stop on every page is the logo; keyboard users re-tab the full nav each page.

Fix: visually-hidden-until-focused skip link as first element in the header, target #main.

Focus rings & link distinction

2.4.7 / 1.4.11 / 1.4.1

Focus indicator is the browser default thin blue ring — invisible against the near-black nav, footer, and hero. On /privacy-policy/ the contact email sits at 1.33:1 against surrounding text with no underline.

Fix: one global :focus-visible ring, flipped light on dark panels; underline in-text links.

Structural

7 of 10 pages have no H1 (/apply/, /faq/, /investors/, /news/, /portfolio/, /team/, /thesis/ start at H2); homepage jumps H1 → H5.
No <main> landmark on 9 of 10 pages; 92 nodes of content outside any landmark.
Styled line breaks concatenate words for screen readers ("Companies webelieve in.") — add a space or heading aria-label.

What passes

Clean: 320px reflow on all 10 pages, alt text on all 31 images, lang set, unique descriptive titles, nav landmark present. No forms on-site, so no form-labeling surface.

Audit run 2026-08-19 · axe-core (WCAG 2.0–2.2 A/AA + best-practice) at 1440px & 390px, 2.5s animation settle · manual layer per IMN WCAG 2.2 AA checklist.