Built to be usable, not just readable.
Perimenopause does not check whether you use a screen reader first. The check is for every woman who needs it, so the site treats accessibility as a build requirement. This page says what that means in practice.
Last reviewed August 23, 2026.
The standard we build against
The site targets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. Before a page ships, we measure its contrast, walk it by keyboard, and test its screen-reader semantics on the real quiz, not just the marketing pages.
What is built in
- The whole check works by keyboard. Every control is a real button, link, or form element, with a visible focus outline, and focus follows you from screen to screen instead of getting lost.
- Skip links on every page jump keyboard and screen-reader users straight to the content.
- Screen readers get the full result: the animated score dial has a plain-text equivalent, symptom ratings announce which symptom they belong to and which rating is selected, and progress through the check is exposed as a progress bar.
- Text contrast meets or exceeds 4.5 to 1 throughout, on every background the site uses. Severity and selection are never carried by color alone.
- All motion respects your reduced-motion setting: the dial, the reveals, and the screen transitions all have instant alternatives.
- Text scales. There is no maximum-scale lock, layouts hold together on zoom, and touch targets stay comfortably large on phones.
- The doctor summary is real text with proper table semantics, so it reads correctly aloud, prints cleanly, and never traps a fact inside an image.
Known limitations
The interactive check itself needs JavaScript. With JavaScript off, the quiz pages still describe in plain text exactly what the check asks and what it returns, but the scoring cannot run, because it runs only on your device by design. The shareable score card is generated as an image; everything on it also appears as text on your results screen, so no information lives only in the picture.
Found a barrier?
If any part of this site is hard to use with your setup, that is a bug, and we want it. Write to wave@perigirlies.com and describe what happened and what you were using. There is no support tier and no queue; the same inbox that reads everything else reads this first.