Accessibility Statement
Chaotic Serendipity Sanctuary
Our commitment
Chaotic Serendipity Sanctuary exists to welcome people in, and that includes how our website works. We want anyone visiting this site — to read about our residents, to donate, to reach out — to be able to do that comfortably, whatever their eyesight, reading style, or the device they're holding. We don't consider this a finished project. It's something we keep working on, and this page is where we're honest about where things stand.
Tools available on this site
You'll find a small accessibility panel on our pages — usually a round button in a corner of the screen labeled “A+.” Click it, and you can turn on any of the following, in any combination that works for you:
- Dyslexia-friendly font — switches the site's text to OpenDyslexic, a typeface designed to be easier to read for some people with dyslexia.
- Increased spacing — adds extra room between lines and letters.
- High contrast — switches to a bold black-and-white color scheme with yellow links.
- Reading overlay — tints the background a soft, warm color instead, if stark black-and-white isn't what helps you.
- Grayscale — removes color from the page entirely.
- Reading guide — highlights a strip of the page that follows your cursor or finger, to help keep your place while reading dense text.
- Underline links — adds a visible underline to every link on the page, for anyone who doesn't rely on color alone to spot one.
- Read aloud — click any text on the page and your browser will read it out loud. You can adjust the reading speed and choose from the voices already available on your device. (A note on this one below.)
Whatever combination you choose is remembered by your browser, so you won't need to set it again each time you visit — though it's saved on your device, not tied to any account, and won't follow you to a different browser or computer.
A few things worth knowing
We'd rather tell you this plainly than have you discover it on your own:
- Read Aloud changes how clicking works. While it's turned on, clicking a link or button reads its text out loud instead of following the link or pressing the button as usual. Turn it off when you want to click normally again.
- Read Aloud isn't a replacement for a screen reader. If you already use one (like NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver), we'd recommend leaving our Read Aloud feature off — the two voices will likely talk over each other rather than help.
- Browser support for Read Aloud varies. It works well in most current browsers, but a few (particularly some versions of Firefox and some mobile browsers) support it less consistently. If it doesn't work in your browser, we'll tell you so rather than leave you wondering.
- Occasionally, a piece of text on this site won't respond to these tools. This is rare, and usually happens with content that carries its own formatting from being pasted in from elsewhere. If you run into it, we'd like to know — see below.
These tools are meant to add options, not to stand in for us doing the underlying work of building an accessible site in the first place — readable color choices, proper image descriptions, a site that works with a keyboard alone. We're working on that too, on an ongoing basis, not as a one-time fix.
Let us know
If something on this site doesn't work for you, or you have a suggestion for how we could do better, we genuinely want to hear it. Reach out to us at
This page was last reviewed September 2026.