Accessibility

Accessibility on This Site

Accessibility on this site isn’t an afterthought or a compliance checkbox. It’s foundational to how it was built.

I have family members with vision impairments due to past injury. Accessibility isn’t abstract for me - it’s personal. That lived experience shapes how I build software and how I evaluate whether a system actually works for the people who need it.

What This Site Does

  • Semantic HTML throughout. Headings, landmarks, lists, and navigation are structured so screen readers and keyboard users get the same information hierarchy as everyone else.
  • No images without alt text. Decorative images are marked as such. Informational images describe what matters.
  • Keyboard navigable. Every interactive element is reachable and operable without a mouse. Skip links are provided.
  • High contrast and readable typography. Content is designed to be legible without overriding styles.
  • No autoplaying media. Nothing starts without your consent.
  • No CAPTCHA walls. Forms are designed to be usable by everyone.

Why This Matters Beyond This Site

Most engineering teams treat accessibility as a late-stage remediation task - something you bolt on after launch to satisfy an audit. That approach is expensive, fragile, and usually incomplete.

I bring something different to the teams I work with. I have deep, hands-on experience with assistive technology and know what breaks, what patterns actually work, and the difference between technically compliant and genuinely usable.

That perspective is rare in engineering leadership. When I review an architecture, I see failure modes that most teams discover only after a lawsuit or a customer complaint. When I set standards for a team, accessibility is built into the definition of done from the start - not because regulations require it, but because building systems that exclude people is a defect.

Standards

This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA conformance. If you encounter an accessibility issue, I want to know - please contact me.

A Competitive Advantage

Accessibility audits and remediation typically cost six figures per pass, and most companies need multiple rounds. When accessibility is built into engineering standards from the start, those costs largely disappear. Your products pass WCAG audits the first time. Your legal exposure under the ADA and the European Accessibility Act drops. And you gain access to the roughly one billion people worldwide living with disabilities - a market segment that most of your competitors’ products actively exclude.

If your organization takes accessibility seriously - or knows it should but doesn’t know where to start - I’ve been solving this problem my entire career. Not as an accessibility consultant, but as a principal engineer who brings deep expertise in building products that work for everyone. The accessibility comes built in. The audit savings and expanded market reach are the side effects.