Everyone should be able to read this.
The people this site is written for are already having a hard week. Nobody should have to fight the website as well.
Last updated 2 September 2026.
What we are aiming at
We are working to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, at level AA. That is the standard most commonly used to judge whether a website is usable by people with disabilities. We are not claiming to have finished.
What has been done
Every text color on the site is measured against every background it actually sits on, and anything below the 4.5 to 1 the standard asks for is darkened until it clears. That check is run over every page rather than a sample of them, so a color that slips shows up as a number instead of waiting for somebody to notice. There is a skip link at the top of every page so a keyboard user does not walk through the whole navigation to reach the words. Keyboard focus is visible everywhere, as a solid outline rather than a faint glow. Every photograph has a description. Headings are real headings, in order, and no page skips a level. Every question on every form has a label attached to it, so what you have landed in is read out rather than left blank. If your device is set to reduce motion, nothing on this site moves.
The Display button
At the bottom of every page there is a button marked Display. It can reduce motion, raise the contrast further than the standard asks for, and make the text larger. Your choice is kept in your own browser and we are not told about it. Your browser can also enlarge every site at once by holding Ctrl and pressing plus, or Command and plus on a Mac, and it does that job better than we can.
Why there is no accessibility widget
You may have seen a small floating icon on other sites promising to make them accessible. We have deliberately not installed one. Those products do not fix the underlying site, disabled users report that they frequently make things worse, and in January 2025 the United States Federal Trade Commission fined the largest of them for claiming otherwise. We would rather do the work than buy the badge.
What is not right yet
The listening project presentation is a slide deck shown as a web page, and it has not had the pass the rest of the site has had. Some of its small print sits below the contrast we hold everything else to, four of its images have no description, its headings skip a level and it has no skip link. It is shared by link with a few people rather than published, which is why it is on this list rather than fixed. It will be fixed before it is published anywhere.
Several photographs have not been taken yet. Where one is missing, the page shows a written description of the picture that belongs there. That is deliberate and it is readable, but it is not a finished page and we would rather you knew that than wondered.
The documents you can download have not been checked. The pages that offer them have; a PDF is a different thing with its own rules, and we have not been through ours. If one of them is unusable, tell us and we will send you the same thing in a form you can read.
Nobody who uses a screen reader every day has been through this site. Everything above was checked with a keyboard, with the browser’s own tools, and with tests that run over every page and report a number. That is not the same as somebody who depends on this telling us what it is like to use, and we are not going to pretend it is. It is the largest gap on this list and the one we would most like to close. If that is you, we would be glad to hear from you.
If the form on this site is the thing you cannot use, write to give@afterthefall.us and a person will read it. An address of our own for this is on the list.
Telling us about a problem
Write to us through Begin a conversation and say what happened, what page you were on and what you were using. If that form is itself the problem, email give@afterthefall.us. A person reads both. We will tell you what we are going to do about it and when, and if the fix is going to take a while we will find another way to get you what you came for in the meantime.