Accessibility

Built for people who are not twenty-five.

Last updated 2026-08-31.

What we are aiming at

We are working towards WCAG 2.1 Level AA. That is the standard US courts and regulators generally point to, and it is the right target for a site whose readers are fifty to a hundred years old. We are not claiming to have been formally audited against it — see “Where we currently fall short” below, which is honest rather than flattering.

What we have actually done

• Body text never smaller than 17px, and nothing anywhere below 15px — including this page, the privacy policy and the legal small print. Small print is where sites shrink type, and it is exactly where our readers cannot follow.
• Buttons are 60 pixels tall, not the usual 44. Forty-four assumes a steady hand.
• Contrast meets at least 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text.
• Nothing depends on hovering. No hover menus, no tooltips, nothing that appears only when a mouse passes over it — which is useless on a touchscreen and hard with a shaky hand.
• Colour never carries meaning alone. Errors are written in words next to the field, not signalled by a red outline.
• Every control has a word on it. No icon-only buttons, no bare arrows. The expanders say “Read more” and “Show less”.
• Keyboard and screen readers. The expanding sections use the browser’s own details element rather than custom JavaScript, so they work with a keyboard and announce themselves properly. There is a “skip to content” link, and a visible outline follows the keyboard focus.
• Reduced motion is respected. If your device is set to reduce motion, the animations stop.
• Text can be enlarged to 200% without the layout breaking, and the page works down to a 320-pixel-wide screen.
• Images carry alt text, and decorative marks are hidden from screen readers rather than read out.
• Forms have visible labels above every field — never a grey hint inside the box that vanishes as you type.

Where we currently fall short

Written plainly, because a statement that claims everything is fine is worth nothing.

• No independent audit yet. Everything above is our own testing, not a third-party conformance report.
• Not yet tested with real screen-reader users. We have built to the standard; we have not sat with someone using VoiceOver or NVDA and watched. We intend to.
• Video captions are not in place. The lesson videos are not published yet. When they are, they will be captioned — and for this audience that is a hearing-access issue, not a nice-to-have.
• Live sessions run on a third-party video platform whose accessibility we do not control. Tell us what you need and we will work around it.
• Some third-party pages we link to — the medical journals on the research page — are outside our control.

Taking part if the website is not the problem

Nothing in the course requires you to kneel or to get down onto the floor. If you use a stick, a frame or a chair, if you have low vision or hearing loss, or if you need the session in a different form — write to us before you join and we will tell you honestly whether we can make it work for you.

Telling us about a problem

Write to [[ACCESSIBILITY CONTACT EMAIL]] with the page and what happened. Plain language is fine — “the button does nothing on my iPad” is a perfectly good bug report. We aim to reply within five working days and to fix real barriers as a priority over anything else we are building.