My own experience of visual impairment has reinforced a simple principle: people should not have to fight the design of a system before they can access what the system exists to provide.
paulinevmuswere.com therefore aims to provide an inclusive and usable digital experience across different devices, browsers, assistive technologies and access needs.
Content should be available through appropriate visual, textual and assistive technology formats.
Navigation and interactive features should be usable without requiring a mouse.
Information, navigation and forms should be clear, predictable and easy to understand.
The website should work reliably across modern browsers and assistive technologies.
Accessibility cannot be established simply by adding an accessibility statement to a website. The experience needs to be tested.
Interactive elements should be accessible using keyboard controls, with a logical navigation order and clearly visible focus states.
Content should use meaningful headings, labels, landmarks and appropriate semantic structure to support screen-reader users.
Meaningful images should have contextual alternative text, while decorative images should not create unnecessary noise for assistive technologies.
Text, controls and important visual information should maintain sufficient contrast and should not rely on colour alone to communicate meaning.
Content should remain usable when text is enlarged and when visitors use browser zoom on different screen sizes.
Forms should use clear labels, understandable instructions, accessible error messages and logical keyboard navigation.
Where video or audio is provided, appropriate captions, transcripts or alternative access formats should be considered.
Motion and animation should remain restrained and should respect visitors who have enabled reduced motion preferences.
We recognise that no digital environment is perfect and that accessibility needs can vary between individuals and technologies.
If you encounter an accessibility barrier on paulinevmuswere.com, please contact us so that we can understand the issue and work towards an appropriate solution.
If you need information in an alternative accessible format or would like to report an accessibility difficulty, please contact the office of Pauline V. Muswere.
