I have been building accessible websites since 1997.
And yet the great potential of the web's democratizing effects has yet to be reached. It is my great hope that accessibility will be built into the very structure of every site and platform.
This website is designed to be accessible to most people, regardless of their individual abilities.
To the greatest extent possible, this site conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines, which means that its content (text and images) is perceivable and operable by people with disabilities.
All content should be accessible to those with disabilities. And yet, we are a long ways from that. A study by StatCan in 2022 revealed that 27 percent of Canadians live with a disability. In the United States, about 25 percent of all people (70 million people) report a disability.
As someone who has designed and built websites for 30 years, I have seen how the web can be an inclusive place – if we just care a bit more. There is no better quote than this one in 1997 by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee:
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
- Web accessibility means real social inclusion for everyone, including those with various disabilities.
- The web is a radical approach to information and knowledge sharing: it removes barriers to communications by its very nature.
- Accessibility for websites means that disability matters, period.
- Web accessibility provides a means for your ideas, your services, your products to reach as many as possible.
- Accessibility happens to be good for all users of the web by increasing usability, readability and comprehension.
- Society is aging and we all will increasingly need easier access to information.
- Those in rural and remote areas of the world also greatly benefit from web accessibility, as pages and systems are built with usability and speed in mind.
- Access to the web is considered a human right in Article 21 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This website aims to be accessible to most people
Creating a website to be accessible only requires a little extra effort. (I designed a resource website with the RGD called AccessAbility that shows how designers can build more inclusive products.)
Here is what I did as of this writing to make this site accessible.
- Code and structure conform to Level AA guidelines of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2).
- Content adheres to the Four Principles of Accessibility or POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust).
- Text alternatives are provided for all images so that people who are blind can read what the images contain.
- Text content is large and clear.
- There is sufficient contrast between text and background to make sure content is legible and readable.
- A visitor can use a keyboard to navigate the site.
- The site features no distracting animation or flashing content.
- Navigation is deliberate, consistent and clear.
- In general, content is written to be easily understood and it is created semantically so that elements like headings, paragraph copy and captions work as expected by visitors.
- The site is viewable easily on all kinds of devices, including desktops, laptops, mobile phones and tablets.
- Google's PageSpeed Insights gives the site a score of 100 for Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO and Agentic Browsing.
If you have any questions about this site’s accessibility, any suggestions or recommendations about making it more accessible, or any issues with accessing the site’s content, please don’t hesitate to let me know. I would appreciate your feedback.
Updated: 10 July 2026
