Our commitment
A website about children’s bikes should work for every parent who wants one — including those using a screen reader, navigating by keyboard, needing larger text, or who would rather the page held still.
The standard we aim at
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, the benchmark referenced by the European standard EN 301 549 and by accessibility law in the EU, the UK and the United States.
Our honest status is partially conformant. The legal, warranty and FAQ pages meet the standard well. The main story page is a heavily animated experience, and parts of it do not — those are listed below rather than glossed over.
What we have built in
- A “skip to content” link on every page.
- Visible focus outlines on every interactive element.
- One H1 per page, with properly nested headings beneath it.
- Text alternatives on meaningful images; decorative artwork marked so screen readers pass over it.
- Form fields with real labels, not placeholder text pretending to be labels.
- Layouts that reflow to small screens and survive text enlarged to 200%.
- Fonts served from our own server, so pages render predictably on slow or restricted connections.
- The warranty, legal and FAQ pages use native expand-and-collapse elements that work without JavaScript.
- A separate, simpler layout on phones rather than a squeezed version of the desktop one.
Known limitations
The home page tells its story through a scroll-driven illustrated journey. It is the best thing about this site and also the source of most of its accessibility problems. Specifically:
- The scroll-driven animation. The track, the rider and the section reveals are all tied to scroll position. The content itself is real text and remains readable, but the experience does not yet fully honour a reduced-motion preference throughout.
- The chapter rail and progress bar are navigational aids that are not fully exposed to assistive technology.
- The bike carousel in “Meet the Two Models” is operable by keyboard, but its arrow controls could announce themselves better.
- The illustrated garden and rider are decorative SVG and are hidden from screen readers — correct, but it does mean the visual storytelling is lost. The written text carries the same story, which is why the text is not a summary of the animation but the substance of it.
- Retailer logos are supplied to us as images; text baked into a supplied logo cannot be resized independently.
If something doesn’t work for you
Tell us. We’ll fix what we can, and meanwhile we’ll get you the information another way — by email or over the phone. That includes talking you through sizing, or reading the warranty terms aloud.
- topgear@abhgt.com — subject line “Accessibility”
- Telephone
- +971 4 223 7397
- We aim to reply within
- 5 working days
How this was assessed
Self-assessed by the team that builds the site, against the WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria. It has not been verified by an independent accessibility auditor. If we commission a formal audit, we’ll say so here and publish what it found.
Scope
This statement covers playwhimsy.com, including the Journal articles. It doesn’t cover the retailer websites we link to, or abbasbinhaider.com.
Review
Prepared on 25 August 2026, and reviewed whenever the site changes materially.