The standard I work to
shainabushnell.com and its subpages aim for WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the same benchmark used by the U.S. Department of Justice for web accessibility. Accessibility is a practice, not a finish line, so I treat this as a working standard rather than a one-time badge.
What that looks like here
- Contrast-checked colors. Every text color on this site is verified against its background by computed contrast ratio, not by eye — including the brand palette itself, which was darkened where it fell short.
- Labeled forms. Every field on the contact and intake forms is programmatically labeled, so screen readers announce what each one is for.
- Zoom is never blocked. Pinch-zoom and text scaling work everywhere, including the games.
- Motion respects your settings. Animations honor your device’s reduced-motion preference across the site and the arcade.
- Semantic structure. Real headings, landmarks, lists, and alt text on meaningful images, so assistive tech can navigate the page the way it was designed to.
- Keyboard access. Menus, forms, games’ how-to dialogs, and interactive controls are reachable and operable without a mouse.
How it’s tested
Every page is audited with axe-core, the industry-standard accessibility engine, running in a real browser. The most recent full audit — August 14, 2026 — covered all 21 pages and reported zero WCAG 2.1 A/AA violations. Automated checks catch most machine-verifiable problems; manual keyboard and screen-reader checks continue on an ongoing basis, and new pages are audited before they ship.
Known limitations, honestly
The arcade is the frontier: several games are visual and timing-based by nature (catching falling light, matching colors), and a fully non-visual equivalent of those mechanics does not exist yet. Everything around the games — menus, instructions, leaderboards, settings — meets the same standard as the rest of the site, and the word and trivia games are playable by keyboard.
Links to other sites — my coaching site, shops, Medium, the AFSP donation pages — lead to platforms with their own accessibility practices that I do not control.
Found something in your way?
Tell me and I will fix it — that is not a form letter, it is how this page you’re reading came to exist. Email info@shainabushnell.com with the page, what happened, and the assistive technology or browser you were using. You’ll hear back from me, a real person, usually within a couple of days.