Digital Portfolio Accessibility Statement

This digital portfolio employs numerous recommendations offered by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. The site was intentionally designed to be largely text-based with limited media components. For all elements, content order is irrelevant. Users may engage with these materials in whatever order they wish to without missing out on context or detail.

In constructing this site, I aimed to fulfill perceivable accommodations (where “information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive”), operable accomodations (where “user interface components and navigation must be operable”), understandable accomodations (where “information and the operation of user interface must be understandable”), and robust accomodations (where “content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies”).

All images feature descriptive alt-text that is both comprehensive and brief so users with visual impairments may have full access throughout the website (WCAG 2.0 G94). For color accessibility, no content or images are dependent upon a specific color for context (WCAG 2.0 G1). All link text is descriptive and details the purpose of said link (WCAG 2.0 G91), likewise as all page headers are also descriptive and detail the accompanying content (WCAG 2.0 G88).

To verify the accessibilty of my site prior to submission, I utilized WAVE developed by WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind). I learned that the colors of the navigation bar does not fulfill the recommended contrast minimum (WCAG 1.4.3), making it difficult for some users to read the links. Unfortunately, since this is a Jekyll template that that I forked from a pre-existing repository, I’m not sure how to find the correct CSS files to fix this issue at the moment. However, I will be looking for ways to fix it in the future.