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Accessibility
Built to be usable by everyone.
This site targets WCAG 2.1 level AA. This page states that goal plainly, what has already been done to meet it, one gap that is still open, and how to report a problem with it.
The standard, and where it stands today
01WCAG 2.1, level AAThat is the standard this site is designed and tested against, across every page.Target
02Zero blocking automated violationsAn automated axe scan of all eight main routes on this site currently returns zero blocking violations.Measured
03Automated testing has limitsAn automated scan cannot catch everything a person using assistive technology would notice. This page is one way to tell us what it missed.Honesty
What has already been done
01Gold text made readable on light backgroundsA dedicated color token was introduced for gold text on light backgrounds, raising five previously muted tones above the 4.5:1 contrast ratio that AA requires for body text.Contrast
02Decorative marks are hidden from assistive technologyPurely decorative roman numerals used as section markers carry aria-hidden="true", so a screen reader skips them instead of reading them out as content.Structure
03Motion respects your preferenceEvery animation and scroll effect on this site has a full fallback for visitors whose system is set to reduce motion: content simply appears, in place, without animating in.Motion
A known gap, stated openly
On the Biography page, eight links that sit inline within paragraphs of running text have a touch target smaller than the 44 by 44 pixel size that WCAG 2.2's success criterion 2.5.8 generally asks for. That same criterion carries an explicit exception for links that appear inline within a sentence of text, which is the case here, so this is not a failure of the standard. It is named on this page anyway, on purpose, because stating it plainly is more useful than leaving it to be found. A wider touch target for those eight links is on the list for a future pass.
REPORT A PROBLEM Tell us what you found. No email address is published on this site, so the way to report an accessibility problem, on this page or anywhere else, is through the Contact form. Describe the page, what you were trying to do, and what happened, and it will be looked at directly.
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