Accessibility

The standard

This site aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. In practice, that means:

• Text meets the AA contrast ratios against its background.
• No text is smaller than 14 pixels, and body text is at least 17 pixels on a desktop and 16 pixels on a phone.
• Every link and button shows a visible outline when you reach it with the keyboard.
• If your device asks for reduced motion, nothing on the page animates.
• Decorative patterns and icons are hidden from screen readers, and the portrait has a text alternative.

How it is checked

Every time the site is published, automated checks run first. If any of them fails, the site is not published.

• The axe accessibility engine tests every page against the WCAG 2.1 A and AA rules, at a desktop width and a phone width, with every expandable section and the phone menu open.
• A readability check measures the text on the home page and on this page against the size floor above.
• Scripted browser tests use the keyboard alone. They move through each page with the Tab key, forwards and backwards, and confirm that every link and button shows a focus outline and is never hidden under the menu bar. They also open the phone menu with the keyboard, move through it, and close it with the Escape key.
• The same tests confirm that each page fits a screen 320 pixels wide with no sideways scrolling. They also check that every item in the phone menu can be reached on a screen 320 by 256 pixels, which is what a 1280 by 1024 screen shows at 400% zoom.
• Tests confirm that each page has one main heading, page landmarks, keyboard focus styles, a reduced-motion setting, and no requests to other websites.

Automated tools catch many problems, but not all of them. A script can show where keyboard focus goes, but not whether a person finds it easy to follow.

Known limits

• The site has not yet been tested with a screen reader.
• So far, all testing has been in Chromium, the engine behind Chrome and Edge. Safari and Firefox have not been tested.
• My résumé is offered as a PDF and as a Word document. If neither works well with your assistive technology, email me and I will send it in another format.

Report a problem

If anything on this site is hard to see, hear, or use, please tell me. Email nicole.c.cononie@gmail.com with the page and what happened, and I will reply.