Accessibility Statement

1Our commitment

Catchwave SRL wants PalaFilm Movie Management ("the Application") to be usable by everyone who works on a production, including people who use a keyboard instead of a mouse, a screen reader, magnification, or the reduced-motion and contrast settings of their system.

This statement applies to the Application at this address and to its installed version, in release 1.7.1. It is written with Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act), Romanian Law no. 232/2022 that transposes it, and the harmonised standard EN 301 549 in mind.

2Compliance status

"Partially conformant" means that some parts of the content do not fully meet the standard, or have not been checked well enough to say that they do. The known gaps are listed under Known limitations.

3How this was assessed

The assessment was made on 5 November 2026 by the publisher, with three kinds of evidence:

• Automated browser tests that run before every release, in Chromium: layout at 390, 768 and 1440 CSS pixels without sideways page scrolling; keyboard shortcuts and their on-screen list; moving scenes on the stripboard and story cards with the arrow keys; focus entering, staying in and returning from dialogs; one visible focus ring on every control; switching the interface language.
• UX Self-assessment, a screen inside the Application that lists fourteen accessibility and usability criteria. Of those, only colour contrast is calculated, and only for a sample of the declared colour palette (every sampled pair reaches 4.5:1). The other thirteen are declared by design and are not tested by that screen.
• Review of the code for landmarks, headings, labels, live announcements and the reduced-motion and text-size settings.

Not yet done: testing with screen readers (such as NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver or TalkBack), testing with people with disabilities, and an independent audit.

4Known limitations

• Screen readers. The Application has not been tested with any screen reader. Complex screens (the stripboard, the Script editor, the scheduling tools and wide data tables) may be hard to use with one.
• Contrast. Contrast is calculated only for a sample of the colour palette, not for every screen, state and chart, in the light or dark theme.
• Language. The interface, the function guide and the printed reports are available in English, Romanian and German. Text you or others add (screenplays, notes, names) stays as written. The language switch is three flags, each with the name of its language as its accessible name.
• Documents you print or save as PDF. Reports are printed through the browser. Whether the resulting PDF carries tags for assistive technology depends on the browser; this has not been checked.
• Wide tables. On narrow screens some data tables scroll sideways inside their own area instead of reflowing; the page itself does not.
• Time limits. For security, an OpenRouter sign-in must be completed within 15 minutes, a collaboration invitation link expires after 10 minutes, and repeated wrong PINs lock sign-in for a while. These limits cannot be extended.
• Content you or others add. Screenplays, notes, imported files and text produced by an AI provider are not checked for accessibility.

5What helps

• A Skip to content link, landmarks and headings on every screen.
• Full keyboard use with a visible focus ring, keyboard shortcuts (press ? for the list) that can be switched off, and arrow-key alternatives to dragging on the stripboard and the story board.
• Settings for text size, contrast, reduced motion and touch target size; the system's reduced-motion setting is followed as well.
• Controls of at least 44 × 44 CSS pixels on touch screens, and layouts for phone, tablet and desktop.
• A manual code as an alternative to scanning a QR code with the camera.
• Status changes, saves and errors announced to assistive technology.
• Notices stay long enough to read (about a second per eight words), wait while the pointer or the keyboard is on them, and offer Undo after a removal or a move; a failure is shown in the error colour as well as in words.
• Printed documents use the strip colours together with written INT/EXT and DAY/NIGHT, so the colour is never the only cue.
• These legal pages in English, Romanian and German, with no scripts, a light and a dark theme, high-contrast mode support and a print layout.

6Feedback and contact

If something in the Application is hard or impossible for you to use, or you need information in another format, write to contact@palafilm.com. Tell us the screen, what you were trying to do, and the device, browser and assistive technology you use. We will answer by email, and we use reports like these to decide what to fix first.

7Enforcement

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can turn to the Romanian National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC). If you use the Application in another EU country, the authority responsible for accessibility there can also help.

8Changes to this statement

This statement is reviewed with every release that changes how the Application is used, and whenever a test or an audit gives new evidence. The version and date at the top show the current one.

What changed in version 1.1

• Language: the whole interface, the guide and the printed reports are now translated; the switch is three flags with accessible names. Added the notices that wait and offer Undo, and colour never being the only cue in printed documents.

What changed in version 1.0

• First published, in English, Romanian and German.