Accessibility Statement

This quote reflects my stance on web accessibility:

I am committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. I am continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

I generated (and then tweaked) this accessibility statement from the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.

 

Measures to support accessibility

The following measures are taken to ensure accessibility of olets.dev:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. olets.dev is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Fully conformant means that the content fully conforms to the accessibility standard without any exceptions.

Additional accessibility considerations

Partial or full implementation of the following Level AAA Success Criteria:

  • 1.3.6 Identify Purpose (WCAG 2.1)
  • 1.4.8 Visual Presentation
  • 1.4.9 Images of Text (No Exception)
  • 2.1.3 Keyboard (No Exception)
  • 2.2.3 No Timing
  • 2.3.2 Three Flashes
  • 2.3.3 Animation from Interactions (WCAG 2.1)
  • 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only)
  • 2.4.10 Section Headings
  • 2.5.5 Target Size (WCAG 2.1)
  • 2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms (WCAG 2.1)

Feedback

Your feedback on the accessibility of olets.dev is welcomed. Please get in touch if you encounter accessibility barriers on olets.dev:

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

olets.dev is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Latest Chromium browsers (Chrome, Brave, etc), Firefox, and Webkit browsers (Safari, iOS browsers, etc). Notably the CSS relies on features added to Chrome 105, Firefox 121, Edge 105, and Safari 15.4.

olets.dev is not compatible with:

  • Internet Explorer 11 will have layout and other CSS problems, and may have problems with some of the structure.
  • Chrome before 105, Firefox before 121, Edge before 105, and Safari before 15.4 may have layout or other CSS problems.
  • Other browsers and assistive technology may have problems.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of olets.dev relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Assessment approach

The accessibility of olets.dev was assessed by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
    • WAVE
    • axe DevTools
    • Lighthouse
    • VoiceOver with Safari

Among the combinations I have not tested, the most significant miss is JAWS and NVDA. Feedback from users left behind by this will be received with gratitude.

This statement was created on 22 February 2024 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.