Accessibility

Created: 5 July 2024 | Last Update: 13 November 2024.

This is not an accessibility statement solely for compliance. This website was a collaboration between Sulaiman R. Khan and Disabled designer Jessica Oddi. It was developed with the core belief that Access is Love — the incredible project by Alice Wong, Mia Mingus, and Sandy Ho.

We are in community to constantly learn, unlearn, and change practices. If you're a Disabled comrade, we'd love to know about your experience on this site. Want to flag issues, or leave some love? Contact Sulaiman (subject: Accessibility) or email Jessica (oddi.jessica@gmail.com) for assistance.

[Open Quote] Okay let's get into the LOVE that went into creating this website! [Close Quote] — Jess

Website Development

Jessica Oddi made this website on WebFlow. The custom-built theme follows WCAG 2.2 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) as a base. Simple and clean HTML, CSS (styling), and JavaScript.

Practices from the Disabled community were followed. Image descriptions, crediting sources, layouts with ample padding, and a custom coded light/dark mode toggle. Don't worry, no ableist overlays were used to make it, just Jessica's tiny MD hands and her code.

Developer Testing

Jess tested the site with the following accessibility practices and devices:

• Browsers and Devices: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, on macOS Sonoma. Edge on Windows 11. Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S24 Pro. Safari on Mama Oddi's iPhone and iPad (thanks Mom!).
• Assistive Tech: VoiceOver, Voice Control, Narrator, TalkBack, Voice Access.
• Manual: Keyboard-only navigation, zoom, inverted/colour filters.
• Automated (Site-Wide Total): ARC Toolkit with 0 errors. Warnings manually reviewed to be non-issues. WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) with 0 critical errors and 4 alerts (long alt text and redundant links).

Community Testing

If you'd like to contribute to the site's access, please reach out! We'd love to test across more devices with lived-experience.

Cross-Disability Access Notes

Sulaiman uses assistive tech and alternative navigation. There may be extra returns or characters from copy/pasting. He is also a Mistro of expression. Jess and Sulaiman met in the middle to create a semi-condensed experience, while keeping true to Sulaiman's values.

If you have Zoom Text, Jess recommends using the browser zoom before using the app. This will trigger the media query to give you an enlarged single column layout, which may make your Zoom Text experience better.

Updates to this Site

This is where we will post any significant updates to the site, based on feedback from the Disability community. (All in Crip-Time of course.)

• 13 November 2024: Overlap-wrap style added on smaller screens to break long words if necessary. Especially useful when increasing the overall font-size on small screens.
• 27 July 2024: Added specific auto complete attributes to the contact form. As well as a visible focus state on the success message after a form is sent.